[gdal-dev] plate caree and EPSG:4326

Jean-Claude Repetto jrepetto at free.fr
Mon Jan 30 09:18:19 EST 2012


Le 30/01/2012 14:28, Alfredo Alessandrini a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to reproject the VGT-P product with the gdal libraries.
>
> The metafile is reported below.
>
> It's right to assume the EPSG 4326 code as source spatial reference set?
>

Yes, I think so. But it is not a Plate Carrée projection, since the 
units would have been meters, not degrees. It is sometimes called 
"Geodetic Projection" (see http://www.dme.nt.gov.au/IWSDoc/html/295.htm ).

Jean-Claude


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