[Proj] Common term for geographic and projected coordinates?

[Karney, Charles]

> From: Mikael Rittri [Mikael.Rittri at carmenta.com]
> Date: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 05:19
> Subject: [Proj] Common term for geographic and projected coordinates?
>
>    I am trying to document a method that tranforms pixel coordinates
> to either projected or geographic coordinates, depending on whether
> the window is presented with a map projection or just as lat-lon (all
> right, Pseudo Plate Carrée).

In the vision world, the conversion for "world" coordinates to pixels is
accomplished by a "camera matrix"

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_matrix

In general this is a projective map from 3d to 2d.  The simple case
you're considering is a similarity transform.  The transformation from
pixel to projected coordinates is given by the inverse of the camera
matrix.
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