USDA Forest Service
 

Remote Sensing Lab, Ecosystem Planning

 
 
USDA Forest Service, Remote Sensing Lab, Sacramento, CA.
Remote Sensing Lab
3237 Peacekeeper Way
Suite 209
McClellan, CA 95652

RSL Contacts
United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service.

Projects & Plans - Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Projections used with RSL Geospatial Data

NAD 1983 California (Teale) Albers Equal Area Conic

Coordinate System Description:

  • Projection: Albers
  • Units: Meters
  • Ellipsoid: GRS 1980
  • Datum: NAD83
  • Parameters:
  • 1st standard parallel: 34 0 0.000
  • 2nd standard parallel: 40 30 0.000
  • Central meridian: -120 0 0.00
  • Latitude of projection's origin: 0 0 0.000
  • False Easting (meters): 0.00000
  • False Northing (meters): - 4000000.0000

Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)

Northern Forests are in UTM Zone 10
  • Eldorado
  • Klamath
  • Lassen
  • Mendocino
  • Modoc
  • Plumas
  • Shasta-Trinity
  • Six Rivers
  • Stanislaus
  • Tahoe
  • Lake Tahoe Basin

Coordinate System Description:

  • Projection: UTM
  • Zone: 10
  • Units: Meters
  • Spheroid: GRS 1980
  • Datum: NAD 83
Southern Forests are in UTM zone 11
  • Angeles
  • Cleveland
  • Inyo
  • Los Padres
  • San Bernardino
  • Sequoia
  • Sierra
  • Toiyabe (R4)

Coordinate System Description:

  • Projection: UTM
  • Zone: 11
  • Units: Meters
  • Spheroid: GRS 1980
  • Datum: NAD 83

USDA Forest Service - Remote Sensing Lab, Ecosystem Planning
Last Modified: Tuesday, 21 December 2010 at 14:49:34 EST


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