Table 11.1 Landsat 7 1G Projection Parameters
	Required Parameters
Projection Name	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
Universal Transvere Mercator (UTM)	SMajor	SMinor	Zone
Lambert Conformal Conic	SMajor	SMinor	STDPR1	STDPR2	CentMer	OriginLat	FE	FN
Polyconic	SMajor	SMinor			CentMer	OriginLat	FE	FN
Transverse Mercator	SMajor	SMinor	Factor		CentMer	OriginLat	FE	FN
Polar Stereographic	SMajor	SMinor			LonPol	TrueScale	FE	FN
Hotine Oblique Mercator A	SMajor	SMinor	Factor			OriginLat	FE	FN	Long1	Lat1	Long2	Lat2	zero
Hotine Oblique Mercator B	SMajor	SMinor	Factor	AziAng	AzmthPt	OriginLat	FE	FN					one
Space Oblique Mercator B	SMajor	SMinor	Satnum	Path			FE	FN					one

Table 11.2 Projection Parameter Definitions
AziAng	azimuth angle east of north for center projection line
AzmthPt	longitude of point on central meridian where AziAng occurs.
CentMer	Longitude of the projection's central meridian
Factor	scale factor at the central meridian (transverse mercator) or center of projection (Oblique Mercator)
FE	false easting in the same units as the semi-major axis
FN	false northing in the same units as the semi-major axis
Lat1	latitude of first point on the projection's center line
Lat2	latitude of second point on the projection's center line
Long1	longitude of first point on the projection's center line
Long2	longitude of second point on the projection's center line
LongPol	longitude down below pole of map
OriginLat	latitude of the projection origin
Path	path number for Landsat 7 using the World Reference System #2
Satnum	number of the Landsat satellite (i.e. 7)
SMajor	semi-major axis of the projection's ellipsoid
SMinor	semi-minor axis of the projection's ellipsoid
STDPR1	latitude of the first standard parallel
STDPR2	latitude of the second standard parallel
TrueScale	latitude of the true scale

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Last Update: May 3, 2002