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Projections for GIS Coverages

Written by Cliff Buck

The most useful projections for our coverages would be Stateplane and Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM). ARC/Info was used to reproject these coverages into the appropriate coverages:.

Project into Stateplane:

Arc> project cover <in cover> <out cover>

Arc> output

Arc> projection stateplane

Arc> units feet

Arc> zone 5151

Arc> parameters

Arc> end

Project into UTM:

Arc> project cover <in cover> <out cover>

Arc> output

Arc> projection utm

Arc> units meters

Arc> zone 18 {Select zone 18 for Eastern}

Arc> parameters

Arc> end

Other ARC/Info commands that were used while managing these coverages are described in the help books located in Room 406 Williams Hall. These include Shapearc, Mapjoin, Build, Clean, Clip, Copy, and Import. Please see the help books for descriptions on the use of these commands.


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