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EPSG:6932

Projected coordinate system

WGS 84 / NSIDC EASE-Grid 2.0 South

Covered area

SimpleMap

WGS84 bounds:
-180.0 -90.0
180.0 0.0

Southern hemisphere.

Attributes

Unit: metre

Geodetic CRS: WGS 84

Datum: World Geodetic System 1984

Ellipsoid: WGS 84

Prime meridian: Greenwich

Data source: OGP

Information source: Brodzik, M. J., B. Billingsley, T. Haran, B. Raup, M. H. Savoie. 2014. EASE-Grid 2.0: Incremental but Significant Improvements for Earth-Gridded Data Sets. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 2012, 1, 32-45 & correction in 2014, 3, 1154-1156.

Revision date: 2014-11-21

Scope: Gridding and small scale and digital mapping for environmental sciences.

Remarks: Supersedes NSIDC EASE-Grid South, CRS code 3409. This ellipsoidal development is to be preferred for new data.

Area of use: Southern hemisphere.

Coordinate system: Cartesian 2D CS for south polar azimuthal lonO 0°E. Axes: X,Y. Orientations: X along 90°E, Y along 0°E meridians. UoM: m.

Export

Definition: OGP XML

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      <epsg:show>true</epsg:show>
      <epsg:isDeprecated>false</epsg:isDeprecated>
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</gml:ProjectedCRS>

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