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Re: Calculating area of latitude-longitude quadrangle? [message #77325 is a reply to message #77323]

Tue, 23 August 2011 12:13

David Fanning
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Ashley Berg writes:

> Is there any way to calculate the area of a latitude-longitude
> quadrangle in IDL, or some formula I could use?
> MATLAB can (using areaquad from the Mapping Toolbox, which can return
> surface area in km^2 of a lat/lon box covering a part of Earth) but I
> do not have access to MATLAB.

Wow! Really!?

I'm not sure I'd put a whole lot of trust in a
number like that! :-)

Cheers,

David

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Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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