distance to the ground

Does anyone know of a way to take the altitude from a GPS and calculate the
distance to the ground (if you are in a plane or helicopter). I assume you
would need a large lookup table describing the contours of the earth. Does
any company sell anything like this for the use with GPS?

Thomas


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