UTMzone function

UTM zone information

UTM zone information

Return the UTM zone information

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.

Returns

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. Leesjonathan.lees@unc.edu

See Also

setPROJ, UTM.xy, UTM.ll, DATUMinfo

Examples

lat = 40.5 lon = -73.50 UTMzone(lat, lon) ## or UTMzone("18T")
  • Maintainer: Jonathan M. Lees
  • License: GPL (>= 2)
  • Last published: 2024-07-09

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