Tool NameGeographic Distances
Tool ID20
Library IDpj_proj4
Version1.0
Author(s)O. Conrad (c) 2015

Description

Calculates for all segments of the input lines the planar, great elliptic, and loxodrome distance and re-projects the latter two to the projection of the input lines.
Projection routines make use of the PROJ generic coordinate transformation software.
PROJ Version is 9.8.1
PROJ Homepage

Parameters

NameTypeIdentifierDescriptionConstraints
Input
Segmentsshapes, inputPLANAR
Output
Great Ellipticshapes, outputORTHODROME
Loxodromeshapes, outputLOXODROME
Options
Epsilonfloating point numberEPSILONdefines the maximum resolution [km] for the re-projected distance segmentsMinimum: 1.000000
Default: 100.000000