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    A projected coordinate system – also called a projected coordinate reference system, planar coordinate system, or grid reference system – is a type of...
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    In geometry, a coordinate system is a system that uses one or more numbers, or coordinates, to uniquely determine and standardize the position of the...
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    be aligned with a standard projected coordinate system. Local tangent plane coordinates are a type of local coordinate system used in aviation and marine...
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    A geographic coordinate system (GCS) is a spherical or geodetic coordinate system for measuring and communicating positions directly on Earth as latitude...
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    In geometry, a Cartesian coordinate system (UK: /kɑːrˈtiːzjən/, US: /kɑːrˈtiːʒən/) in a plane is a coordinate system that specifies each point uniquely...
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    In geometry, a barycentric coordinate system is a coordinate system in which the location of a point is specified by reference to a simplex (a triangle...
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    trivial. Spherical coordinates, projected on the celestial sphere, are analogous to the geographic coordinate system used on the surface of Earth. These...
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    In geometry, the elliptic coordinate system is a two-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system in which the coordinate lines are confocal ellipses and...
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    eastings and northings of a projected coordinate reference system, such as Universal Transverse Mercator – usually the coordinate system in which the map is drawn...
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    Earth. Like the UTM coordinate system, the UPS coordinate system uses a metric-based cartesian grid laid out on a conformally projected surface. UPS covers...
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    zones and projects each to the plane as a basis for its coordinates. Specifying a location means specifying the zone and the x, y coordinate in that plane...
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  • The State Plane Coordinate System (SPCS) is a set of 125 geographic zones or coordinate systems designed for specific regions of the United States. Each...
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    Geographic coordinate system – System to specify locations on Earth Projected coordinate system – Cartesian geographic coordinate system Universal Transverse...
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    Cartesian coordinate system is somewhat arbitrary, the selection of a single system of homogeneous coordinates out of all possible systems is somewhat...
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    is oriented with north up. In most applications the Gauss–Krüger coordinate system is applied to a narrow strip near the central meridians where the...
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    orthogonal coordinate system with its origin at O. This is also where the camera aperture is located. The three axes of the coordinate system are referred...
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  • The object locative environment coordinate system, known as OLE coordinate system, is a coordinate system used for virtual environments in which movement...
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  • list below is a collection of available official national projected Coordinate Reference Systems. Links to the relevant unique identification codes of the...
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    principal invariants of tensors do not change with rotation of the coordinate system (see Invariants of tensors). The singular values of a matrix are invariant...
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  • System, a Geocode system used by radio amateurs worldwide A 1 km2 square defined by a National grid reference system, see Projected coordinate system#Grid...
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    Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the primary time standard globally used to regulate clocks and time. It establishes a reference for the current time...
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    that a tesseract (cubic prism) can be projected as two concentric cubes, and how a circular cylinder can be projected into 2-dimensional space as two concentric...
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    displacement from a reference position in a three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system (i.e., with XYZ axes). In addition to moving the probe along the X...
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    three-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system that results from projecting the two-dimensional parabolic coordinate system in the perpendicular z {\displaystyle...
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    Celestial sphere (category Astronomical coordinate systems)
    celestial coordinate systems, frameworks for measuring the positions of objects in the sky. Certain reference lines and planes on Earth, when projected onto...
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  • geographic coordinate reference systems, but also geocentric, projected, vertical, temporal and engineering ones (for example a coordinate reference system attached...
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    Azimuth (category Horizontal coordinate system)
    observer-centric spherical coordinate system. Mathematically, the relative position vector from an observer (origin) to a point of interest is projected perpendicularly...
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  • three-dimensional Cartesian coordinates (x, y, z) is an orthogonal coordinate system, since its coordinate surfaces x = constant, y = constant, and z = constant are...
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    three-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system that results from projecting the two-dimensional elliptic coordinate system in the perpendicular z {\displaystyle...
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    The current version, WGS 84, defines an Earth-centered, Earth-fixed coordinate system and a geodetic datum, and also describes the associated Earth Gravitational...
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