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  • 1universal polar stereographic grid — A military grid system for use in limited areas in operations requiring precise position reporting. It covers areas between the 80° latitude and the poles. The northern pole area is divided into two parts by the 180° meridian. The western half is …

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  • 2universal polar stereographic grid — A military grid prescribed for joint use in operations in limited areas and used for operations requiring precise position reporting. It covers areas between the 80 degree parallels and the poles …

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  • 3Stereographic projection — In geometry, the stereographic projection is a particular mapping (function) that projects a sphere onto a plane. The projection is defined on the entire sphere, except at one point mdash; the projection point. Where it is defined, the mapping is …

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  • 4Military grid reference system — Geodesy Fundamentals Geodesy · …

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  • 5Universal Polar Stereographic coordinate system — The Universal Polar Stereographic (UPS) coordinate system is used in conjunction with the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinate system to locate positions on the surface of the earth. Like the UTM coordinate system, the UPS coordinate… …

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  • 6Universale Polare Stereografische Projektion — Die Universale Polare Stereografische Projektion ist eine winkeltreue und stereografische Projektion, die im UTM Koordinatensystem für die Darstellung der Polarregionen verwendet wird. Einerseits soll sie übermäßigen Verzerrungen in der Umgebung… …

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  • 7Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system — The Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinate system is a grid based method of specifying locations on the surface of the Earth. It is used to identify locations on the earth, but differs from the traditional method of latitude and longitude …

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  • 8Geographic coordinate system — Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 3.12MB) …

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  • 9Map projection — A medieval depiction of the Ecumene (1482, Johannes Schnitzer, engraver), constructed after the coordinates in Ptolemy s Geography and using his second map projection A map projection is any method of representing the surface of a sphere or other …

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  • 10Truncated icosidodecahedron — (Click here for rotating model) Type Archimedean solid Uniform polyhedron Elements F = 62, E = 180, V = 120 (χ = 2) Faces by sides …

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