milatlon2ucs: Convert between geographical and UCS coordinates

In steingod/R-mipolsat: Useful functions for handling locally processed satellite data

Description

Geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude) are converted to coordinates within the Cartesian User Coordinate System, northings and eastings using a spherical Earth and an Earth radius of 6371. km. This is a very crude approximation, for better accuracy and support of other Earth models use e.g. PROJ.4 software (http://www.remotesensing.org/proj).

Usage

milatlon2ucs(latitude, longitude)  

Arguments

latitude	decimal degrees, positive in northern hemisphere
longitude	decimal degrees, positive Eastwards, negative westwards

Value

Returns a data.frame with latitude (lat) and longitude (lon) and metadata.

Author(s)

Øystein Godøy ([e-mail])

See Also

miucs2latlon

Examples

    ucs <- miucs2latlon(latitude,longitude)
    ucs$northings
    ucs$eastings

steingod/R-mipolsat documentation built on May 30, 2019, 2:31 p.m.