Geodesy, Datum and Projection Bibliography

Several of the publications cited here apply to more than one of the categories I've chosen for this listing. You're encouraged to browse the entire listing and examine publications whose titles appear on-topic for your needs.

Geodesy In General

Defense Mapping Agency Technical Report 80-003, Geodesy for the Layman, December 1983. Available online at the NGA Geospatial Science Publications resource.

Defense Mapping Agency Technical Report 8400.1, Error Theory As Applied to Mapping, Charting, and Geodesy, 2 May 1991. Available online at the NGA Geospatial Science Publications resource.

Geodetic Datums, Reference Frames, and Transformations

Boucher, Claude, and Zuheir Altamimi, "The ITRF and its relationship to GPS." _GPS WORLD_, 7:9 (September 1996). Available online at http://schubert.ign.fr/CIAG/WITRF/ITRF-GPS.html.

National Imagery and Mapping Agency Technical Report 8350.2, Department of Defense World Geodetic System 1984: Its Definition and Relationships with Local Geodetic Systems, 3rd ed., Amendment 1, 3 January 2000. Available online at the NGA Geospatial Science Publications resource.

Ordnance Survey Great Britain, A guide to coordinate systems in Great Britain. Available online at the Ordnance Survey Web site.

Professor Cliff Mugnier writes a monthly column, "Grids and Datums", for the ASPRS publication Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. Each month's column describes the historical datum (or datums) for a different country, and the April 2000 column provides an overview of classical datums. The columns are available online.

Map Projections

Snyder, John P. Map Projections--A Working Manual. U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1395. Available in PDF from the USGS.

Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)

National Imagery and Mapping Agency Technical Manual 8358.2, The Universal Grids: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) and Universal Polar Stereographic (UPS). Available online at the NGA Geospatial Science Publications resource.

Military Grid Reference System (MGRS)

National Imagery and Mapping Agency Technical Manual 8358.1, Datums, Ellipsoids, Grids, and Grid Reference Systems. Available online at the NGA Geospatial Science Publications resource.

Standard Codes for Ellipsoids, Datums, Projections, and Grids

Digital Geographic Information Working Group, The Digital Geographic Information Exchange Standard (DIGEST), Part 3, Codes and Parameters. Available online from the DIGEST Web site.

Navigation

Bowditch, Nathaniel, The American Practical Navigator: An Epitome of Navigation, 1995 Edition. Bethesda, Maryland: National Imagery and Mapping Agency, 1995. Available online at the IRBS Web site.