Handbook for Transformation of Datums, Projections, Grids and Common Coordinate Systems.

Abstract

This document provides Army organizations and agencies with general guidance on selecting the appropriate methods for shifting between local geodetic datums and the World Geodetic System (WGS), and for converting Cartesian and map projection coordinates to and from geodetic coordinates. This guidance is provided to aid the Army community in selecting datum shift algorithms, in developing, selecting, and maintaining software using these algorithms, and in implementing this software to support operational units. Equations are furnished for map projections and datums commonly used within the Army, and references are provided for other, less commonly encountered, map projections and datums.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA323733

Entities

People

  • Daniel Specht
  • Frederick Gloeckler
  • James Ackeret
  • Justin Simpson
  • Richard Joy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Birds
  • Cartesian Coordinates
  • Cartography
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Geodesy
  • Geodetic Surveys
  • Geographic Regions
  • Geography
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Grids
  • Map Projection
  • Terrain
  • Three Dimensional
  • Topography
  • World Geodetic System

Readers

  • Geodesy
  • Software Engineering.