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Coordinate Transformation Using Matlab

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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of Study Coordinate systems form a common frame of reference for description of positions and on the other hand, coordinates are simply an ordered set of numbers that are used to describe the positions or features in coordinate system. Transformation parameters are required to move from one system to another. Also, new technologies like global positioning system have provide new methods of coordinates determination the map production, update and revision are based on geographical coordinates, map-grid coordinates or coordinates in an arbitrary system. Some other based on old (local) system. With so many geodetic datums in current use, it is becoming almost common practice to …show more content…

The origins and axes of these coordinate systems are different. While the geocentric coordinate system has its origin at the centre of the mass of the earth and the regional (local) coordinates system has its centre different from the geocentre. These coordinate systems are associated with the term ‘datum’, which uses coordinates referred to the surface of defined ellipsoid of revolution. (Featherstone and Reit, 1998). Historically, different ellipsoids have been chosen by different countries of the world in order to simplify surveying and mapping in their region and as such these ellipsoids are not necessarily geocentric. In Malaysia, the region (local) coordinate system is two old or classical triangulation networks, namely the Malayan Revised Triangulation 1968 (MRT68) for Peninsular Malaysia where base on Modified Everest ellipsoid in Kertau and the Borneo Triangulation 1968 (BT68) for Sabah and Sarawak based on Modified Everest ellipsoid in Timbalai. With the recent advances in space-based positioning technology, many countries have begun to implement and subsequently adopted a global geocentric coordinate reference system. In relation to this, Department of Surveying and Mapping Malaysia (DSMM) itself has embraced in the early 1990s the Global Positioning System (GPS) technology with the eventual objective of adopting a global unified datum for Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak. This later led towards the establishment of a new geodetic framework

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