UTMzone: UTM zone information

In GEOmap: Topographic and Geologic Mapping

UTM zone information

Description

Return the UTM zone information

Usage

UTMzone(lat, lon = NA)

Arguments

lat	latitude
lon	longitude

Details

The function works two ways: If the lat-lon are numeric and lon is not NA then the UTM zone information is returned. If lon is NA and lat is one of the UTM zones, then the lat-lon information for that zone is returned.

Value

list:

zone	Character, zone designation
LON	longitude range of the zone
LAT	latitude range of the zone
CEN	center of the zone, used for projections

Author(s)

Jonathan M. Lees<[e-mail]>

See Also

setPROJ, UTM.xy, UTM.ll, DATUMinfo

Examples

lat = 40.5
  lon = -73.50
UTMzone(lat, lon)
##  or
UTMzone("18T")

GEOmap documentation built on Sept. 1, 2023, 5:09 p.m.