EAS221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Decimal Degrees, Spherical Earth, North American Datum
24 Sep 2016
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The process of defining position with respect to a reference frame (in some contexts the associated terms geocoding or geolocating may be used) Only 1 location associated with a given coordinate o. Can also think about an ip address as a georeferencing. A commonly used cadastral (map of land ownership) Modeled on us public land system survey. Important in alberta because it is used for selling oil/gas exploration rights and for georeferencing well locations. Alberta township system - locate land west of some meridian (range) + north of us. Border (township: think of it as a grid system, ranges (rge): 6 mile wide, numbered east to west, from a meridian (e. g. line of longitude, townships (twp): 6 mile high chunks numbered from south to north from the. Us border: section - section - township - range - meridian, township roads are east to west, range roads are north to south.
