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    A spatial reference system (SRS) or coordinate reference system (CRS) is a framework used to precisely measure locations on the surface of Earth as coordinates...
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    The National Spatial Reference System (NSRS), managed by the National Geodetic Survey (NGS), is a coordinate system that includes latitude, longitude,...
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    coordinate system – also called a projected coordinate reference system, planar coordinate system, or grid reference system – is a type of spatial reference system...
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    The Military Grid Reference System (MGRS) is the geocoordinate standard used by NATO militaries for geo-referencing, position reporting, and situational...
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    the simplest, oldest, and most widely used type of the various spatial reference systems that are in use, and forms the basis for most others. Although...
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  • reference systems (WKT or WKT-CRS) is a text markup language for representing spatial reference systems and transformations between spatial reference...
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    commentaries for their derivation have also been given. The WGS 84 spatial reference system describes Earth as an oblate spheroid along north-south axis with...
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    Earth-fixed coordinate system (acronym ECEF), also known as the geocentric coordinate system, is a cartesian spatial reference system that represents locations...
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  • geographic space (usually a scanned map or aerial photograph) to a spatial reference system, thus locating the digital data in the real world. It is thus the...
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    datum or geodetic system (also: geodetic reference datum, geodetic reference system, or geodetic reference frame, or terrestrial reference frame) is a global...
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    The Geodetic Reference System 1980 (GRS80) consists of a global reference ellipsoid and a normal gravity model. The GRS80 gravity model has been followed...
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    Geomatics (redirect from Spatial science)
    Geographic information systems (GIS), spatial database management and geographic information technology (GeoIT) Spatial analysis, spatial data mining and knowledge...
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    88 was affirmed as the official vertical datum in the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS) for the Conterminous United States and Alaska. (see Federal...
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  • spatial databases also support the storage of raster data. Because all geographic locations must be specified according to a spatial reference system...
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    Spatial Reference System, NAD 83, along with North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88), are set to be replaced with a new geometric reference frame...
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    The European Terrestrial Reference System 1989 (ETRS89) is an ECEF (Earth-Centered, Earth-Fixed) geodetic Cartesian reference frame, in which the Eurasian...
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    webpage for WGS 84 Geodesy for the Layman, Chapter VIII, "The World Geodetic System" Spatial reference for EPSG:4326 ANTEX (.atx) files that define IGS20...
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    Geo URI scheme (category Geographic information systems)
    identifies a physical location in a two- or three-dimensional coordinate reference system in a compact, simple, human-readable, and protocol-independent way...
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    EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset (category Spatial databases)
    (also EPSG registry) is a public registry of geodetic datums, spatial reference systems, Earth ellipsoids, coordinate transformations and related units...
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    Geoid (redirect from Reference geoid)
    solar system. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH. p. 704. ISBN 9783527408566. Chicaiza, E.G.; Leiva, C.A.; Arranz, J.J.; Buenańo, X.E. (14 June 2017). "Spatial uncertainty...
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    Survey National Grid reference system (OSGB), also known as British National Grid (BNG), is a system of geographic grid references, distinct from latitude...
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    the figure of the Earth or other celestial body is called a reference ellipsoid. The reference ellipsoid for Earth is called an Earth ellipsoid. An ellipsoid...
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  • conditions, aviators may determine aircraft attitude by reference to an attitude indicator. Spatial disorientation can occur in other situations where visibility...
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  • release the new spatial reference system and new zones in 2025. As with earlier systems, the name of the new system, State Plane Coordinate System of 2022, indicates...
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    geographic applications, a geodesic reference ellipsoid is the mathematical model used as foundation by spatial reference system or geodetic datum definitions...
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    Navigation Satellite System (BDS; Chinese: 北斗卫星导航系统; pinyin: běidǒu wèixīng dǎoháng xìtǒng) is a satellite-based radio navigation system owned and operated...
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    along the x-axis. Datum (geodesy) Exact constraint Reference frame Surface plate Spatial reference system The plural of this sense of the word datum is datums...
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  • over a short period of time. There are two basic types of reference locality –temporal and spatial locality. Temporal locality refers to the reuse of specific...
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    gravity vector on a real-time basis. A gravity gradient is simply the spatial derivative of the gravity vector. The gradient can be thought of as the...
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    Hellenic Geodetic Reference System 1987 or HGRS87 (Greek: Ελληνικό Γεωδαιτικό Σύστημα Αναφοράς 1987 or ΕΓΣΑ'87) is a geodetic system commonly used in Greece...
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