Sunday, November 20, 2011

Universal Transverse Mercator System



The above picture represents an example of the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) System.  A UTM is a rectangular coordinate system which has two different versions: A) Military B) Civilian.  Each zone is six degrees and has a central meridian.  The map above is a UTM Map of the NATO UTM System; dividing the earth into 60 longitude zones.

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