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Jan 1956
A Conformal and World-Wide Military Grid System
Publication: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Volume 121, Issue 1
Abstract
Efficient fire control under battle conditions requires a plane-rectangular coordinate system with the property of conformality. In 1947, the United States Department of the. Army adopted the Universal Transverse Mercator projection as most suitable for this purpose . Implementation involves the mass conversion of geodetic data and reduction to a common datum by the Army Map Service.
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Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Volume 121 • Issue 1 • January 1956
Pages: 633 - 640
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© 1956 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published in print: Jan 1956
Published online: Feb 10, 2021
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Floyd W. Hough, M.ASCE
Chief, Geodetic Div., Army Map Service, Washington, D. C.
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