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    The South American Datum (SAD) is a regional historical geodetic datum for South America. The most common version was established in 1969 (SAD69), as adopted...
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    The North American Datum (NAD) is the horizontal datum now used to define the geodetic network in North America. A datum is a formal description of the...
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  • Thumbnail for North American Vertical Datum of 1988
    States of America based upon the General Adjustment of the North American Datum of 1988. It superseded the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD...
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    geodetic datum or geodetic system (also: geodetic reference datum, geodetic reference system, or geodetic reference frame) is a global datum reference...
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  • Thumbnail for National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929
    Vertical Datum of 1929 is the official name since 1973 of the vertical datum established for vertical control surveying in the United States of America by the...
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    American Datum of 1983 (NAD 83) and the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88) with a new geometric reference frame and geopotential datum....
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    ED50 (redirect from European Datum 1950)
    ED50 ("European Datum 1950", EPSG:4230) is a geodetic datum which was defined after World War II for the international connection of geodetic networks...
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    Moscow. It is used in Australia for the Australian Geodetic Datum and in the South American Datum 1969. The GRS-80 (Geodetic Reference System 1980) as approved...
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    standards, also includes a choice of geodetic datum (including an Earth ellipsoid), as different datums will yield different latitude and longitude values...
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  • Thumbnail for European Terrestrial Reference System 1989
    geodetic datum to be used for mapping and surveying purposes in Europe. It plays the same role for Europe as NAD-83 for North America. (NAD-83 is a datum in...
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    the large geodetic systems, such as European Datum (ED50), North American Datum (NAD), and Tokyo Datum (TD), to provide a worldwide geo-data basis Need...
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    Earth-centered, Earth-fixed coordinate system (category Use American English from March 2021)
    2010. ECEF datum transformation Archived March 22, 2007, at the Wayback Machine Notes on converting ECEF coordinates to WGS-84 datum Datum Transformations...
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    – Mathematical Association of America". www.maa.org. Donald Engels (1985). The Length of Eratosthenes' Stade. American Journal of Philology 106 (3): 298–311...
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    up to 200 meters from the old. For different geographic regions, other datum systems can be used. Prior to the development of the Universal Transverse...
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  • Thumbnail for Global Area Reference System
    “area-centric” counterpart to the “point-centric” MGRS". It uses the WGS 1984 Datum and is based on lines of longitude (LONG) and latitude (LAT). It is intended...
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    include the World Geodetic System and the 1927 and 1983 North American Datum. A datum generally consists of an estimate of the shape of the Earth (usually...
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  • Thumbnail for EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset
    Parameter Dataset (also EPSG registry) is a public registry of geodetic datums, spatial reference systems, Earth ellipsoids, coordinate transformations...
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  • Thumbnail for Military Grid Reference System
    position reported in a modern datum usually cannot be misunderstood as using an old datum, and vice versa – provided the datums use different MGRS lettering...
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  • Thumbnail for Geodetic Reference System 1980
    Level Datum 1929 OSGB36 Ordnance Survey Great Britain 1936 SK-42 Systema Koordinat 1942 goda ED50 European Datum 1950 SAD69 South American Datum 1969 GRS...
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    Level Datum 1929 OSGB36 Ordnance Survey Great Britain 1936 SK-42 Systema Koordinat 1942 goda ED50 European Datum 1950 SAD69 South American Datum 1969 GRS...
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    (vertical). These regional geodetic datums, such as ED 50 (European Datum 1950) or NAD 27 (North American Datum 1927), have ellipsoids associated with...
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    difference between north and south polar radii, owing to a 19 m "stem" rising in the North Pole and a 26 m depression in the South Pole. The polar asymmetry...
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    Similarly, if the lines are further south, the values will give the point a more northerly latitude.) The smallest datum shift is on the west coast of Scotland...
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    ellipsoid/spheroid with a bulge at the equator and flattening at the North and South Poles, so that the equatorial radius a is larger than the polar radius b...
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    The Survey established chains of mapped locations through Central and South America, and the West Indies, and as far as Japan and China in the years 1874–90...
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  • Thumbnail for List of geodesists
    Level Datum 1929 OSGB36 Ordnance Survey Great Britain 1936 SK-42 Systema Koordinat 1942 goda ED50 European Datum 1950 SAD69 South American Datum 1969 GRS...
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    Level Datum 1929 OSGB36 Ordnance Survey Great Britain 1936 SK-42 Systema Koordinat 1942 goda ED50 European Datum 1950 SAD69 South American Datum 1969 GRS...
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  • Thumbnail for Hellenic Geodetic Reference System 1987
    datum and a projection system. In some documents it is called Greek Geodetic Reference System 1987 or GGRS87. HGRS87 specifies a non-geocentric datum...
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  • 'Topographic map non-linear confidentiality algorithm') is a geodetic datum used by the Chinese State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (Chinese: 国测局;...
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  • Thumbnail for ISO 6709
    horizontal position coordinate (ϕ or y), such as latitude (negative number south of equator and positive north of equator) Second horizontal coordinate (λ...
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