The use of UTM co-ordinates for emergency response.

Contributor(s):

Drolet, Alain

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: [Canada : Emergency Preparedness Canada], 1987Description: 14 p. : illSubject(s):

Universal transverse Mercator projection (Cartography)

DDC classification:

526 21

Subject: Discusses the potential benefits of the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) co-ordinates system as a geographic reference system to locate emergency sites. The paper is aimed at evaluating the relative merits of the UTM system versus the pitfalls of the present system. A major factor to consider in making such an evaluation is the advantage the UTM system has in improving the overall response time and reducing the error rate

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Report no. 87.01.02

Discusses the potential benefits of the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) co-ordinates system as a geographic reference system to locate emergency sites. The paper is aimed at evaluating the relative merits of the UTM system versus the pitfalls of the present system. A major factor to consider in making such an evaluation is the advantage the UTM system has in improving the overall response time and reducing the error rate

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