Course Outline

Map Projections

• Map Projections
  
  • Map projections - What are they? Why do we need them?
    
  • Geometry of the earth.
    
  • Classes of map projections.
    
  • Commonly used map projections in oil exploration.
    • Transverse Mercator
    • Lambert Conformal Conic
    • Universal Transverse Mercator
    • State Plane Coordinates
      
  • Conversion between coordinate systems.
    
  • Proper documentation of projections used.

© 1999 John Sharry
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