Our mission: Ensuring Geodetic Excellence

Our function: Showing the way to WGS 84

 

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General

• Definitions  Explanation of selected terms.
• Frequently asked questions  Commonly asked questions from CSAT customers.
• CSAT Publications  Publications of Interest
• "BASIC GEODESY" CSAT's monthly articles on datums, coordinates, etc.

Guidance

• Datum Transformations Basics of datum transformations.
• Grids and Reference Systems   Diagrams and explanation of the UTM system, MGRS, and GEOREF.
• Quick-Start Guide to map projections for NGA ArcGIS users.
• ArcGIS Grid Guidance explains how to use ArcMap to generate and use MGRS and other map grids.
• ArcGIS Grid Generation a quick walkthrough on how to generate UTM/MGRS grids in ArcMap.
• MGRS Lettering Schemes explains the two schemes, which ellipsoid uses which scheme, etc.
• Military Map Reading 201.  An excellent NGA publication explaining the UTM and MGRS systems, with illustrations of NGA products.  In Adobe Acrobat.
• Polar Stereographic Conversion A map projection computation to convert Latitude of True Scale to Scale Factor at the Pole.

Tools/Data