lonlat2utm {oce} | R Documentation |
Convert Longitude and Latitude to UTM
lonlat2utm(longitude, latitude, zone, km = FALSE)
longitude |
decimal longitude. May also be a list containing items
named |
latitude |
decimal latitude (ignored if |
zone |
optional indication of UTM zone. Normally this is inferred from the longitude, but specifying it can be helpful in dealing with Landsat images, which may cross zones and which therefore are described by a single zone. |
km |
logical value indicating whether |
A list containing easting
, northing
, zone
and
hemisphere
.
Dan Kelley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Transverse_Mercator_coordinate_system, downloaded May 31, 2014.
utm2lonlat
does the inverse operation. For general
projections and their inverses, use lonlat2map
and
map2lonlat
.
Other functions related to maps: lonlat2map
,
map2lonlat
, mapArrows
,
mapAxis
, mapContour
,
mapDirectionField
, mapGrid
,
mapImage
, mapLines
,
mapLocator
,
mapLongitudeLatitudeXY
,
mapPlot
, mapPoints
,
mapPolygon
, mapScalebar
,
mapText
, mapTissot
,
oceCRS
, shiftLongitude
,
utm2lonlat
library(oce) ## Cape Split, in the Minas Basin of the Bay of Fundy lonlat2utm(-64.496567, 45.334626)