[OSRS-PROJ] Projection Information Weather Satellite

Gerald I. Evenden gerald.evenden at verizon.net
Wed Oct 8 14:31:01 EDT 2003


There is proj=tpers (Tilted perspective).  In addition to option h= there are
tilt=<angle> and azi=<angle>

It is only for a spherical earth---which probably ought to be OK for scales
involved.

On Wednesday 08 October 2003 09:58 am, Ray Bryan E 2Lt 1 OSS/OSW wrote:
> Alex,
>
> Thanks for the information.  According the NOAA, its is a GOES projection.
> (Geostationary Satellite).  The satellite is in geosync orbit over -75
> Longitude and 0 degrees latitude.  They have a fortran program they use to
> map to this projection.  I think I will need to do some more research on
> this.
>
> Thanks again,
> Bryan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Weidauer [mailto:alex.weidauer at huckfinn.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 10:15 AM
> To: osrs-proj at remotesensing.org
> Subject: RE: [OSRS-PROJ] Projection Information Weather Satellite
>
> Brayn,
>
> I think that will not work with affine transforms
> without having the right projection of the earh body
> to the a plain sheet. Do you have a idea what they mean
> with Oblique Horizon projection
>
> it seems to be a photo where the satellite is turned
> over the horizont normal. I think it could determined
> if you have the trace coordinates of the satellite.
>
> To program it it's to high for me and I have to grabb
> deep into the proj library. I think you should write
> Gerlad Everden. He is the creator of the library
>
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