Equidistant Cylindrical (Spherical)
EPSG code: 1029, 9823Aliases: Plate Carrée, OGC: Equirectangular
, ESRI:Plate_Carree
, GeoTIFF:CT_Equirectangular
, Proj4:eqc
Operation parameters: EPSG Name Remarks Value domain Default OGC:
semi_major
ESRI: Semi_Major NetCDF: semi_major_axis GeoTIFF: SemiMajorAxis Proj4: a (0 … ∞) m OGC:
semi_minor
ESRI: Semi_Minor NetCDF: semi_minor_axis GeoTIFF: SemiMinorAxis Proj4: b (0 … ∞) m 8823 Latitude of 1st standard parallel
OGC: standard_parallel_1 ESRI: Standard_Parallel_1 NetCDF: standard_parallel GeoTIFF: StdParallel1 Proj4: lat_ts (-90 … 90)° 0° 8801 Latitude of natural origin
OGC: latitude_of_origin ESRI: Latitude_Of_Origin NetCDF: latitude_of_projection_origin GeoTIFF: CenterLat Proj4: lat_0 Optional ¹ [-0 … 0]° 0° 8802 Longitude of natural origin
OGC: central_meridian ESRI: Central_Meridian NetCDF: longitude_of_projection_origin GeoTIFF: CenterLong Proj4: lon_0 [-180 … 180]° 0° 8806 False easting
OGC: false_easting ESRI: False_Easting NetCDF: false_easting GeoTIFF: FalseEasting Proj4: x_0 (−∞ … ∞) m 0 m 8807 False northing
OGC: false_northing ESRI: False_Northing NetCDF: false_northing GeoTIFF: FalseNorthing Proj4: y_0 (−∞ … ∞) m 0 m
¹ This parameter is shown for completeness, but should never have a value different than 0 for this projection.