Supported projections in GRASS 5.0.0

Projections list - Links to tutorials and national grid systems


GRASS Projection software is based on PROJ4 originally from USGS, now
maintained by Frank Warmerdam.

ll -- Lat/Lon
utm -- Universe Transverse Mercator
stp -- State Plane
aea -- Albers Equal Area
lcc -- Lambert Conformal Conic
merc -- Mercator
tmerc -- Transverse Mercator
leac -- Lambert Equal Area Conic
laea -- Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area
aeqd -- Azimuthal Equidistant
airy -- Airy
aitoff -- Aitoff
alsk -- Mod. Stererographics of Alaska
apian -- Apian Globular I
august -- August Epicycloidal
bacon -- Bacon Globular
bipc -- Bipolar conic of western hemisphere
boggs -- Boggs Eumorphic
bonne -- Bonne (Werner lat_1=90)
cass -- Cassini
cc -- Central Cylindrical
cea -- Equal Area Cylindrical
chamb -- Chamberlin Trimetric
collg -- Collignon
crast -- Craster Parabolic (Putnins P4)
denoy -- Denoyer Semi-Elliptical
eck1 -- Eckert I
eck2 -- Eckert II
eck3 -- Eckert III
eck4 -- Eckert IV
eck5 -- Eckert V
eck6 -- Eckert VI
eqc -- Equidistant Cylindrical (Plate Caree)
eqdc -- Equidistant Conic
euler -- Euler
fahey -- Fahey
fouc -- Foucaut
fouc_s -- Foucaut Sinusoidal
gall -- Gall (Gall Stereographic)
gins8 -- Ginsburg VIII (TsNIIGAiK)
gn_sinu -- General Sinusoidal Series
gnom -- Gnomonic
goode -- Goode Homolosine
gs48 -- Mod. Stererographics of 48 U.S.
gs50 -- Mod. Stererographics of 50 U.S.
hammer -- Hammer & Eckert-Greifendorff
hatano -- Hatano Asymmetrical Equal Area
imw_p -- International Map of the World Polyconic
kav5 -- Kavraisky V
kav7 -- Kavraisky VII
labrd -- Laborde
lagrng -- Lagrange
larr -- Larrivee
lask -- Laskowski
lee_os -- Lee Oblated Stereographic
loxim -- Loximuthal
lsat -- Space oblique for LANDSAT
mbt_s -- McBryde-Thomas Flat-Polar Sine (No. 1)
mbt_fps -- McBryde-Thomas Flat-Pole Sine (No. 2)
mbtfpp -- McBride-Thomas Flat-Polar Parabolic
mbtfpq -- McBryde-Thomas Flat-Polar Quartic
mbtfps -- McBryde-Thomas Flat-Polar Sinusoidal
mil_os -- Miller Oblated Stereographic
mill -- Miller Cylindrical
mpoly -- Modified Polyconic
moll -- Mollweide
murd1 -- Murdoch I
murd2 -- Murdoch II
murd3 -- Murdoch III
nell -- Nell
nell_h -- Nell-Hammer
nicol -- Nicolosi Globular
nsper -- Near-sided perspective
nzmg -- New Zealand Map Grid
ob_tran -- General Oblique Transformation
ocea -- Oblique Cylindrical Equal Area
oea -- Oblated Equal Area
omerc -- Oblique Mercator
ortel -- Ortelius Oval
ortho -- Orthographic
pconic -- Perspective Conic
poly -- Polyconic (American)
putp1 -- Putnins P1
putp2 -- Putnins P2
putp3 -- Putnins P3
putp3p -- Putnins P3'
putp4p -- Putnins P4'
putp5 -- Putnins P5
putp5p -- Putnins P5'
putp6 -- Putnins P6
putp6p -- Putnins P6'
qua_aut -- Quartic Authalic
robin -- Robinson
rpoly -- Rectangular Polyconic
sinu -- Sinusoidal (Sanson-Flamsteed)
somerc -- Swiss. Obl. Mercator
stere -- Stereographic
tcc -- Transverse Central Cylindrical
tcea -- Transverse Cylindrical Equal Area
tissot -- Tissot
tpeqd -- Two Point Equidistant
tpers -- Tilted perspective
ups -- Universal Polar Stereographic
urm5 -- Urmaev V
urmfps -- Urmaev Flat-Polar Sinusoidal
vandg -- van der Grinten (I)
vandg2 -- van der Grinten II
vandg3 -- van der Grinten III
vandg4 -- van der Grinten IV
vitk1 -- Vitkovsky I
wag1 -- Wagner I (Kavraisky VI)
wag2 -- Wagner II
wag3 -- Wagner III
wag4 -- Wagner IV
wag5 -- Wagner V
wag6 -- Wagner VI
wag7 -- Wagner VII
weren -- Werenskiold I
wink1 -- Winkel I
wink2 -- Winkel II
wintri -- Winkel Tripel

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