1st Edition

Coordinate Systems of the World Datums and Grids

By Clifford J. Mugnier Copyright 2023
966 Pages 201 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

966 Pages 201 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

966 Pages 201 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

A comprehensive consolidation of data for the world, this book gives a short precis of each nation, each nation’s history, its topography and a chronology of the development of geodetic surveying and coordinate systems for that specific nation. This book is a starting point of information for understanding the world’s datums and grids. Based on the details available for each nation, the reader is... Read more

Dedication

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgement

List of Symbols used

Reference Ellipsoid

A

Afghanistan

Albania

Algeria

Andorra

Angola

Antigua/Barbuda

Argentina

Armenia

Aruba

Australia

Austria

Azerbaijan

B

The Bahamas

Bahrain

Bangladesh

Barbados

Belarus

Belgium

Belize

Benin

Bhutan

Bolivia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Botswana

Brazil

Brunei

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

Burma

Burundi

C

Cambodia

Cameroon

Canada

Cape Verde

Cayman Islands

Central African Republic

Chad

Chile

China

Colombia

Comores

Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa)

Republic of the Congo (Brassaville)

Costa Rica

Croatia

Cuba

Cyprus

Czechia

D

Denmark

Djibouti

Dominica

Dominican Republic

E

Ecuador

Egypt

El Salvador

Equatorial Guinea

Estonia

Ethiopia

F

Fiji

Finland

France

French Polynesia

G

Gabon

Gambia

Georgia

Germany

Ghana

Gibraltar

Greece

Grenada

Guadeloupe

Guam

Guatemala

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Guyana

H

Haïti

Honduras

Hong Kong

Hungary

I

Iceland

India

Indonesia

Iran

Iraq

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Ivory Coast

 

J

Jamaica

Japan

Jordan

K

Kazakhstan

Kenya

Kiribati

Korea

Kuwait

Kyrgyzstan

L

Lao

Latvia

Lebanon

Lesotho

Liberia

Libya

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

M

Macau

Macedonia

Madagascar

Malawi

Malaysia

Maldives

Mali

Malta

Marshall Islands

Martinique

Mauritania

Mauritius

Mexico

Micronesia

Moldova

Monaco

Mongolia

Montenegro

Montserrat

Morocco

Moçambique

N

Namibia

Nepal

Netherlands

New Zealand

Nicaragua

Niger

Nigeria

Niue

Norway

O

Oman

P

Pakistan

Panama

Papua New Guinea

Paraguay

Peru

Philippines

Poland

Portugal

 

 

Q

Qatar

R

Romania

Russia

Rwanda

S

Sakhalin Island

Samoa Islands

Sao Tome e Principe

Saudi Arabia

Senegal

Serbia

Seychelles

Sierra Leone

Singapore

Slovakia

Slovenia

Solomon Islands

Somalia

South Africa

Spain

Sri Lanka

St. Kitts and Nevis

St. Lucia

St. Vincent & Grenadines

Sudan

Suriname

Swaziland

Sweden

Switzerland

Syria

 

 

T

Taiwan

Tajikistan

Tanzania

Thailand

Timor-Leste

Togo

Tonga

Trinidad

Tunisia

Turkey

Turkmenistan

Tuvalu

U

Uganda

Ukraine

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom

United States

Uruguay

Uzbekistan

V

Vanuatu

Venezuela

Vietnam

Y

Yemen

Yugoslavia

Z

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Biography

Clifford J. Mugnier is Chief of Geodesy, Emeritus of the Center for Geoinformatics, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Louisiana State University, USA. He attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA initially and later transferred to Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, LA. After graduation with a Baccalaureate in Physical Geography and Mathematics, he was employed by the U.S. Air Force Aeronautical Chart and Information Center in St. Louis, MO. Trained as a Professional Cartographer, he was issued an Induction Notice for the Armed Forces and he enlisted in the U.S. Army. After graduation from the Engineering School, he was commissioned into the Army as a junior officer and assigned to the U.S. Army Map Service where he served three years in production-oriented research in geodesy and photogrammetry for extraterrestrial mapping and also for the CORONA program. He also was a company commander and Captain, executive secretary of the Army Topographic Scientific Advisory Committee. After completing military service, he worked for the Autometric Operation, Raytheon Company in Wayland, MA as chief of photogrammetric triangulation for two years and then moved to Baton Rouge, LA as manager of the photogrammetry division of Owen and White, Inc., Consulting Engineers. Four years later he moved to New Orleans, LA and began full-time consulting in geodesy and forensic photogrammetry. He started part-time teaching surveying, geodesy, and photogrammetry at the University of New Orleans for 20 years and performed research in the physical geodesy of subsidence for the State of Louisiana starting in 1989. In 2000, he moved to Baton Rouge and started full-time teaching at Louisiana State University.