Introduction to basic but important concepts about Coordinate Reference Systems (what is doable in 20 min )
- Geographic Coordinate (Reference) Systems
- Different Datums/Ellipsoids
- Projections (Mercator, UTM, LCC, ...)
- EPSG catalog
- WKT (well known text) description
- Reference to PROJ.org library
The purpose is to explain basic concepts to have a good basis to understand later more complex problems. The presentation will have a lot of links to go deeper into any area of interest.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:30 Agenda
1:05 Why do we need Coordinate Reference Systems?
2:08 Model of the Earth - Geographic CRS
6:42 Projections
9:50 Equirectangular projection
11:06 Tissot's indicatrix
11:50 Mercator projection
13:44 Transverse Mercator projection
14:10 UTM
14:57 Lambert Conformal Conic
15:40 Projected CRS
16:53 EPSG
17:45 WKT
19:24 PROJ |