Geographic Gridding and Mapping of METSAT Imagery

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Gridding Cont.

•-Coordinates for points on the surface of the Earth are given in latitude and longitude.

•-Coordinates in the map plane (x,y) are defined in the usual manner with x horizontal and increasing to the right and y vertical and increasing upward.

•-Map transformations are referred to as projections.

•-Most Maps are either conformal or equal-area.

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