Horizontal Coordinate System Definition Editor (FGDC Metadata)

Note: Information about each field is displayed at the bottom of the dialog box when you click in the field.

The Horizontal Coordinate System Definition section is conditional overall. The requirements for elements and compound elements within the definition assume you will include it.

	To Edit a Compound Metadata Element
	In the Display Manager, select a layer. Click ToolsView Metadata.

FGDC Field ID	Field Title	Short Name	Data Type
4.1	Horizontal coordinate system	horizsys	Compound
4.1.1	Geographic	geograph	Compound
4.1.1.1	Latitude resolution	latres	Real number
4.1.1.2	Longitude resolution	longres	Real number
4.1.1.3	Geographic coordinate units	geogunit	Menu choice
4.1.2	Planar	planar	Compound
4.1.2.1.1	Map projection name	mapprojn	Menu choice
4.1.2.1.23.1	Standard parallel	stdparll	Real number
4.1.2.1.23.2	Longitude of central meridian	longcm	Real number
4.1.2.1.23.3	Latitude of projection origin	latprjo	Real number
4.1.2.1.23.4	False easting	feast	Real number
4.1.2.1.23.5	False northing	fnorth	Real number
4.1.2.1.23.6	Scale factor at equator	sfequat	Real number
4.1.2.1.23.7	Height of perspective point above surface	heightpt	Real number
4.1.2.1.23.8	Longitude of projection center	longpc	Real number
4.1.2.1.23.9	Latitude of projection center	latprjc	Real number
4.1.2.1.23.10	Scale factor at center line	sfctrlin	Real number
4.1.2.1.23.11	Oblique line azimuth	obqlazim	Compound
4.1.2.1.23.11.1	Azimuthal angle	azimangl	Real number
4.1.2.1.23.11.2	Azimuth measure point longitude	azimptl	Real number
4.1.2.1.23.12	Oblique line point	obqlpt	Compound
4.1.2.1.23.12.1	Oblique line latitude	obqllat	Real number
4.1.2.1.23.12.2	Oblique line longitude	obqllong	Real number
4.1.2.1.23.13	Straight vertical longitude from pole	svlong	Real number
4.1.2.1.23.14	Scale factor at projection origin	sfprjorg	Real number
4.1.2.1.23.15	Landsat number	landsat	Integer
4.1.2.1.23.16	Path number	pathnum	Integer
4.1.2.1.23.17	Scale factor at central meridian	sfctrmer	Real number
4.1.2.2	Grid coordinate system	gridsys	Compound
4.1.2.2.1	Grid coordinate system name	gridsysn	Menu choice
4.1.2.2.2	Universal transverse mercator (UTM)	utm	Compound
4.1.2.2.2.1	UTM zone number	utmzone	Integer
4.1.2.2.2.3	Universal polar stereographic (UPS)	ups	Compound
4.1.2.2.2.3.1	UPS zone identifier	upszone	Menu choice
4.1.2.2.4	State plane coordinate system (SPCS)	spcs	Compound
4.1.2.2.4.1	SPCS zone identifier	spcszone	String
4.1.2.2.5	ARC coordinate system	arcsys	Compound
4.1.2.2.5.1	ARC system zone identifier	arczone	Integer
4.1.2.2.6	Other grid system’s definition	othergrd	String
4.1.2.3	Local planar	localp	Compound
4.1.2.3.1	Local planar description	localpd	String
4.1.2.3.2	Local planar georeference information	localpgi	String
4.1.2.4	Planar coordinate information	planci	Compound
4.1.2.4.1	Planar coordinate encoding method	plance	Choose one of three
4.1.2.4.2	Coordinate pair	coordrep	Compound
4.1.2.4.2.1	Abscissa resolution	absres	Real number
4.1.2.4.2.2	Ordinate resolution	ordres	Real number
4.1.2.4.3	Distance and bearing	distbrep	Real number
4.1.2.4.3.1	Distance resolution	distres	Real number
4.1.2.4.3.2	Bearing resolution	bearres	Real number
4.1.2.4.3.3	Bearing units	bearunit	Menu choice
4.1.2.4.3.4	Bearing reference direction	bearrefd	Menu choice
4.1.2.4.3.5	Bearing reference meridian	bearrefm	Menu choice
4.1.2.4.4.	Planar distance units	plandu	Menu choice
4.1.3	Local	local	Compound
4.1.3.1	Local description	localdes	String
4.1.3.2	Local georeference information	localgeo	String
4.1.4	Geodetic model	geodetic	Compound
4.1.4.1	Horizontal datum name	horizdn	Menu choice
4.1.4.2	Ellipsoid name	ellips	Menu choice
4.1.4.3	Semi-major axis	semiaxis	Real number
4.1.4.4	Denominator of flattening ratio	denflat	Real number