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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standardized coordinate systems were created during the 20th century, such as the Universal Transverse Mercator, State Plane Coordinate System, and British...
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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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Lambert conformal conic projection (redirect from Lambert coordinate system)
aeronautical charts, portions of the State Plane Coordinate System, and many national and regional mapping systems. It is one of seven projections introduced...
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known as a 3-tuple, provide a coordinate system on a sphere, typically called the spherical polar coordinates. The plane passing through the origin and...
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(UTM) and national systems such as the British National Grid, and State Plane Coordinate System (SPCS). Engineering coordinate system (or local, custom)...
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Cartesian coordinate system is far more intuitive and practical than ECEF or Geodetic coordinates. The local ENU coordinates are formed from a plane tangent...
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In mathematics, the polar coordinate system specifies a given point in a plane by using a distance and an angle as its two coordinates. These are the point's...
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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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(x, y) plane and primary (x-axis) direction, such as an axis of rotation. Each coordinate system is named after its choice of fundamental plane. The following...
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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...
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Oscar S. Adams (section State plane coordinates)
the foundation of the North American Datum of 1927 and the State Plane Coordinate System. Adams was born January 9, 1874, on a farm near Mount Vernon...
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orbital plane and the planet's equatorial plane. The coordinate system defined that uses the orbital plane as the x y {\displaystyle xy} plane is known...
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Vertical and horizontal (redirect from Horizontal plane)
In the context of a 1-dimensional orthogonal Cartesian coordinate system on a Euclidean plane, to say that a line is horizontal or vertical, an initial...
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significant for mapping, or when the state plane coordinate system (SPCS) is used in the US, because the origin of the system may be hundreds of thousands of...
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use. All State Plane Coordinate Systems are defined in metres, and 42 of the 50 states only use the metre-based State Plane Coordinate Systems. However...
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days, having been replaced by conformal projections in the State Plane Coordinate System. The American polyconic projection can be thought of as "rolling"...
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United States customary units (redirect from United States Customary System)
1⁄8 in (3 mm) per mile – but it affects the definition of the State Plane Coordinate Systems (SPCSs), which can stretch over hundreds of miles. The NAD27...
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National Geodetic Survey Concerning Units of Measure for the State Plane Coordinate System of 1983. Minimum Standard Detail Requirements For ALTA/NSPS...
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triangulation based on the metric system (NAD83) was not released until 1986. Since that time, the State Plane Coordinate Systems (SPCSs) established by the...
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Earth-centered inertial (category Astronomical coordinate systems)
Earth-centered inertial (ECI) coordinate frames have their origins at the center of mass of Earth and are fixed with respect to the stars. "I" in "ECI"...
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United States Geological Survey (redirect from National Water Information System)
Land Survey System, and cartesian coordinates in both the State Plane Coordinate System and the Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system. Other specialty...
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Invariant (mathematics) (redirect from Coordinate system invariant)
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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Community Standards State Plane Coordinate System St. Paul's Convent School, a secondary school in Hong Kong Soldier Plate Carrier System, a U.S. Army bulletproof...
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replacing them with the international versions, particularly with State Plane Coordinate Systems. The choice of unit for surveying purposes is based on the unit...
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numbers, also known as coordinate vectors. Special cases are called the real line R1, the real coordinate plane R2, and the real coordinate three-dimensional...
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Energy profile (chemistry) (redirect from Intrinsic reaction coordinate)
long the reaction coordinate. Figure 5 shows an example of a cross section, represented by the plane, taken along the reaction coordinate and the potential...
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used in the U.S. State Plane Coordinate System, in national (Great Britain, Ireland and many others) and also international mapping systems, including the...
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Three-dimensional space (category Three-dimensional coordinate systems)
the pair formed by a n-dimensional Euclidean space and a Cartesian coordinate system. When n = 3, this space is called the three-dimensional Euclidean...
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the rotated coordinate system. In other words, the circle is the locus of points that represent the state of stress on individual planes at all their...
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