Geographic Distances
| Author(s) | O. Conrad (c) 2015 |
| Library ID | pj_proj4 |
| Tool ID | 20 |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Menu | Projection | Tools |
Description
Calculates for all segments of the input lines the planar, great elliptic, and loxodrome distance and re-projects the latter two to the projection of the input lines.
Projection routines make use of the PROJ generic coordinate transformation software.
PROJ Version is 9.4.1
PROJ Homepage
Parameters
| | Name | Type | Identifier | Description | Constraints |
|---|
| Input | Segments | shapes, input | PLANAR | - | - |
| Output | Great Elliptic | shapes, output | ORTHODROME | - | - |
| Loxodrome | shapes, output | LOXODROME | - | - |
| Options | Epsilon | floating point number | EPSILON | defines the maximum resolution [km] for the re-projected distance segments | Minimum: 1.000000
Default: 100.000000 |
Command Line
Usage: saga_cmd pj_proj4 20 [-PLANAR ] [-ORTHODROME ] [-LOXODROME ] [-EPSILON ]
-PLANAR: Segments
shapes, input
-ORTHODROME: Great Elliptic
shapes, output
-LOXODROME: Loxodrome
shapes, output
-EPSILON: Epsilon
floating point number
Minimum: 1.000000
Default: 100.000000