GRIDDESC Projection Information

PROJECTION

TYPE PARAMETERS
Geographic Coordinate System (latlong) 1 PROJ_ALPHA, PROJ_BETA, PROJ_GAMMA, XCENT, YCENT are unused and set to 0.
Coordinate units are degrees, -180.0 < X,Y <= 180.0
Note that Western hemisphere longitudes and Southern Hemisphere latitudes are taken to be negative.
Lambert Conic Conformal - 2SP parameters (lcc) 2 PROJ_ALPHA is lat_1 which is the latitude of first standard parallel.
PROJ_BETA is lat_2 which is the latitude of second standard parallel.
PROJ_GAMMA is lon_0 which is the longitude of false origin.
X_CENT is lon_0 which is the longitude of false origin.
y_CENT is lat_0 which is the latitude of false origin.
Values of x_0 and y_0 are not defined in this software
Mercator 1SP (merc) 3 PROJ_ALPHA is lon_0 which is the natural origin.
PROJ_BETA is k_0 which is the scale factor at natural origin.
PROJ_GAMMA is x_0 which is the False Easting.
X_CENT is y_0 which is the False Northing.
The rest of parameters are unused and set to 0.
Mercator 2SP (merc) 4 PROJ_ALPHA is lat_ts which is the latitude of first standard parallel.
PROJ_BETA is lon_0 which is the longitude of natural origin.
PROJ_GAMMA is x_0 which is the False Easting.
X_CENT is y_0 which is the False Northing.
The rest of parameters are unused and set to 0.
Stereographic (stere) 5 PROJ_ALPHA is lat_0 which is the latitude at projection center.
PROJ_BETA is lon_0 which is the longitude at projection center.
PROJ_GAMMA is x_0 which is the False Easting.
X_CENT is y_0 which is the False Northing.
The rest of parameters are unused and set to 0.
Universal Transverse Mercator for the Northern Hemisphere (utm) 6 PROJ_ALPHA is the UTM zone, considered as a DOUBLE.
PROJ_BETA is x_0 which is the False Easting.
PROJ_GAMMA is y_0 which is the False Northing.
The rest of parameters are unused and set to 0.
For the southern hemisphere UTM unblock the line: sprintf(args[i++],"%s","+south") in mims_spatl_proj.c file
Polar Stereographic (stere)  7 PROJ_ALPHA is lat_ts which is the latitude at natural origin.
PROJ_BETA is lon_0 which is the longitude at natural origin.
PROJ_GAMMA is k_0 which is the scale factor at natural origin (normally 1.0).
X_CENT is x_0 which is the False Easting.
Y_CENT is y_0 which is the False Northing.
Transverse Mercator (tmerc) 8 PROJ_ALPHA is lat_0 which is the latitude of natural origin.
PROJ_BETA is lon_0 which is the longitude of natural origin
PROJ_GAMMA is k which is the scale factor at natural origin.
X_CENT is x_0 which is the False Easting.
Y_CENT is y_0 which is the False Northing.
Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area (laea) 9 PROJ_ALPHA is lat_0 which is the latitude at projection center.
PROJ_BETA is lon_0 which is the longitude at projection center
PROJ_GAMMA is x_0 which is the False Easting.
X_CENT is y_0 which is the False Northing.
The rest of parameters are unused and set to 0.
Albers Equal-Area Conic (aea) 10 PROJ_ALPHA is lat_1 which is the latitude of first standard parallel.
PROJ_BETA is lat_2 which is the latitude of second standard parallel.
PROJ_GAMMA is lon_0 which is the longitude of false origin.
X_CENT is lon_0 which is the longitude of false origin.
y_CENT is lat_0 which is the latitude of false origin.
Values of x_0 and y_0 are not defined in this software
Sinusoidal (sinu) 11 PROJ_ALPHA is lon_0 which is the longitude at projection center.
PROJ_BETA is x_0 which is the False Easting
PROJ_GAMMA is y_0 which is the False Northing.
The rest of parameters are unused and set to 0.