accuracy of map computations Adams, O. S. Adams, Oscar Sherman Airy Minimum Error Azimuthal projection Airy, George aitoff Aitoff projection Aitoff projection Aitoff, David Albers Equal-Area Conic projection Albers, Heinrich Christian almanac almanac almanac data American Geographical Society American Polyconic projection angle strings converting to numbers angle units convention for navigation functions converting between formats description of formats angledim angledim angles converting units converting units converting units converting units converting units converting units converting units normalizing range normalizing range antipode antipode Apian, Peter apianus Apianus II projection areaint areaint areamat areamat areaquad areaquad ASCII file converting delimiters to NaNs reading aspect defined aspect See projection aspect astronomical data aut2geod auxiliary sphere aut2geod calculating radius cen2geod cnf2geod geod2aut geod2cen geod2cnf geod2iso geod2par geod2rec iso2geod par2geod rec2geod avhrrgoode avhrrlambert axes See map axes axes, Cartesian See Cartesian axes axes, map See map axes axes2ecc axes2ecc axesm axesm axesm axesm axesm axesmui axesscale axesscale azimuth between track waypoints calculating calculating defined finding cross fix position in projected coordinates measuring azimuth azimuth azimuthal projection Babinet projection Balthasart Cylindrical projection Balthasart Cylindrical projection balthsrt Bartholomew, John base map adding to creating base projection bearing See azimuth bearing See azimuth behrmann Behrmann Cylindrical projection Behrmann Cylindrical projection Behrmann Cylindrical projection Behrmann, Walter Bienewitz Bolshoi Sovietskii Atlas Mira Bolshoi Sovietskii Atlas Mira projection Bolshoi Sovietskii Atlas Mira projection bonne Bonne projection Bonne, Rigobert Bordone Oval projection Braun braun Braun Perspective Cylindrical projection Braun Perspective Cylindrical projection Braun Perspective Cylindrical projection breusing Breusing Harmonic Mean projection Breusing, F. A. Arthur bries Briesemeister projection Briesemeister projection Briesemeister, William bsam BSAM projection Buffer buffer zone defined bufferm camposm camtargm camupm cape workspace cart2grn Cartesian axes, displaying cassini Cassini Cylindrical projection Cassini de Thury, César François Cassini projection ccylin cen2geod Central Cylindrical projection Central Cylindrical projection Central projection central projection Ch'ien Lo-Chih changem changem choropleth maps, example circles See great circles See small circles clabelm clegendm Click-and-Drag property editor clma clmo clmo clrmenu cmapui cmapui cnf2geod coast coast workspace coast workspace collig Collignon projection Collignon, Édouard colorbar labeled colorm colorm colormap annotating creating for digital elevation map creating for political data creating for surface contour maps colormap menu in figure window colormaps creating interactively creating with GUI digital elevation map digital elevation map menu in maptool regular matrix map shaded relief map combinations combntns comet3m comet3m cometm cometm cometm conformal projection Conic projection conic projection Conical Orthomorphic projection contor3m contor3m contorm contorm contorm contour map adding legend creating creating creating labeling contourcmap contourfm conversion angle units angle units angle units angle units angle units angle units angle units ASCII file delimiters coordinate types coordinate types coordinate types distance to string distance units distance units distance units distance units distance units distance units dms to matrix elements ellipsoid parameters ellipsoid parameters ellipsoid parameters ellipsoid parameters ellipsoid parameters geographic coordinates to matrix coordinates great circles to small circles hms to matrix elements latitude types latitude types latitude types latitude types latitude types latitude types latitude types latitude types latitude types latitude types latitude types latitude types matrix coordinates to geographic coordinates matrix elements to dms matrix elements to hms time to string time units time units time units time units time units time units time units coordinate system transforming coordinate transformations example using stars matrix data vector data coordinates converting from geographic to matrix converting from matrix to geographic converting types converting types converting types selecting with mouse Cossin, Jean country2mtx country2mtx country2mtx craster Craster Parabolic projection Craster, John Evelyn Edmund cross fix positions crossfix current point from map axes cylindrical projection daspectm dcwdata dcwdem DCW-DEM data dcwgaz dcwread dcwrhead de l'Isle, Nicolas dead reckoning dead reckoning calculating positions rules of Deetz, Charles H. defaultm deg2dm deg2dms deg2km deg2km deg2nm deg2nm deg2rad deg2rad deg2sm degrees notation delaunay demcmap demcmap demcmap demdataui depart departure departure Die Rechteckige Plattkarte Digital Chart of the World Digital Chart of the World (DCW) reading digital elevation data reading files reading gazette reading headers reading selected data digital elevation map, colormap digital elevation maps colormap for line of sight in reading data interactively texture mapping color data onto digital elevation maps (DEMs) digital elevation maps (DEMs),defined displaying light objects light objects lighted surfaces lighted surfaces lines lines lines lines patches patches patches patches patches surfaces surfaces surfaces surfaces surfaces surfaces text text text displaym displaym dist2str distance converting to string converting units converting units converting units converting units converting units converting units See also surface distance distance distance distance See surface distance distance units convention for navigation functions converting between formats description of formats distdim distdim distortcalc dms notation dms2deg dms2deg dms2dm dms2mat dms2rad dms2rad dreckon dreckon dreckon drift correction driftcorr driftvel dted dteds Earth default geoid ellipsoid models Earth See almanac eastof ecc2flat ecc2n eccentricity Eckert I projection Eckert II projection Eckert III projection Eckert IV projection Eckert V projection Eckert V projection Eckert VI projection Eckert, Max Eckert, Max Eckert, Max Eckert, Max Eckert, Max Eckert, Max eckert1 eckert2 eckert3 eckert4 eckert5 eckert6 Edwards, Trystan egm96geoid Egyptians Egyptians Egyptians elevation defined measuring elevation map See digital elevation map ellipse1 ellipsoid approximating planetary geoid See almanac as a geoid model converting parameters models for Earth models for planets radius of curvature ellipsoid parameters conversion conversion conversion conversion converting Elliptical projection encodem epsm eqa2grn eqa2grn eqaazim eqaconic eqacylin eqdazim eqdconic eqdcylin Equal-Area Cylindrical projection Equal-Area Cylindrical projection Equal-Area Cylindrical projection Equal-Area Cylindrical projection Equal-Area Cylindrical projection Equal-Area Cylindrical projection equal-area projection Equidistant Azimuthal projection Equidistant Azimuthal projection Equidistant Azimuthal projection Equidistant Azimuthal projection Equidistant Conic projection Equidistant Cylindrical projection Equidistant Cylindrical projection Equidistant Cylindrical projection Equidistant Cylindrical projection Equidistant Cylindrical projection Equidistant Cylindrical projection equidistant projection Equirectangular projection Equirectangular projection Erastosthenes etopo5 etopo5 ETOPO5 model ETOPO5 model Etzlaub, Erhard Everett external data DCW data DCW data DCW gazette DCW headers DCW-DEM data ETOPO5 model Fifth Fundamental Catalog of Stars TIGER ArcInfo files TIGER FIPS name files TIGER MIF files TIGER/Line data USGS DEM data USGS DEM data USGS DEM filenames external data sources extractm extractm Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Federal Information Processing System (FIPS) Fifth Fundamental Catalog of Stars Fifth Fundamental Catalog of Stars fill3m fill3m fillm fillm fillm fillm filtering geographic data filterm filterm findm findm fipsname fipsname fipsname fixing See navigational fixing fixing See navigational fixing flat2ecc flatearthpoly flatplrp flatplrq flatplrs Flat-Polar Quartic projection fournier Fournier II projection Fournier projection Fournier projection Fournier, Georges frame See map frame framem framem framem Gall Isographic projection Gall Isographic projection Gall Orthographic projection Gall Orthographic projection Gall projection Gall Stereographic projection Gall Stereographic projection Gall, James Gall, James Gauss-Krüger gazette gc2sc gcm gcpmap gcwaypts gcwaypts gcwaypts gcxgc gcxgc gcxsc gcxsc general matrix map projecting projecting projecting projecting projecting projecting projecting shaded relief general matrix maps converting to regular matrix maps defined displaying displaying image and surface coloring displaying light shading displaying shaded relief See also matrix maps geod2aut geod2cen geod2cnf geod2iso geod2par geod2rec geographic data structure creating input mlayers defined definition displaying displaying extracting data extracting data from extracting data from interacting with objects geographic mean geographic points mean standard deviation standard distance geographic standard deviation geoid availability for planets converting ellipsoid parameters defined ellipsoid approximation ellipsoid models for Earth geoid matrix geoid vector components planets See almanac geostatistics calculating geographic mean calculating geographic standard deviation equal-area coordinate system equirectangular binning filtering data sets histograms getm getm getm getseeds giso Globe Globe globe GLOBE data globe projection globedem globedems Gnomic projection gnomonic Gnomonic projection gnomonic projection goode Goode Homolosine projection Goode Homolosine projection Goode, J. Paul gortho gradient defined gradientm graphic scale graphical user interfaces activating getting help See also maptool graticule choosing resolution choosing resolution defined defined graticule mesh great circle track calculating from one point calculating from two points displaying great circles approximating tracks with rhumb lines calculating points of converting to small circles defined interactive intersection intersection with small circles Great Soviet World Atlas Greeks Greeks grepfields grid See map grid gridm grn2eqa grn2eqa gshhs gstereo gtextm gtopo30 GTOPO30 data gtopo30s Guide property editor hammer Hammer projection Hammer projection Hammer projection Hammer-Aitoff projection handlem handlem handlem Hassler, Ferdinand Rudolph hatano Hatano Asymmetrical Equal-Area projection Hatano, Masataka help getting more hidem hidem hidem hista histogram equal area equirectangular histograms histr histr hms notation hms2hm hms2hr hms2mat hms2sec Homolographic projection Homolosine projection Hondius, Jodocus hours notation hr2hm hr2hms hr2sec imagem imbedm indexed maps defined modifying colormap replacing values inputm inputm inputm Inset maps controlling scale creating interplat interplon interpm interpm interpolation along a path latitude and longitude latitude given longitude longitude given latitude interpolation, latitude and longitude intersection great circles great circles and small circles object sets rhumb lines small circles intrplat intrplon ismap ismapped iso2geod Jupiter See almanac Kavraisky V projection Kavraisky VI projection Kavraisky, V. V. Kavraisky, V. V. kavrsky5 kavrsky6 km2deg km2nm km2rad km2sm korea workspace La Carte Parallélogrammatique labels meridians and parallels text lambcyln lambert Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area projection Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area projection Lambert Conformal Conic projection Lambert Equal-Area Azimuthal projection Lambert Equal-Area Conic projection Lambert Equal-Area Cylindrical projection Lambert Equal-Area Cylindrical projection Lambert Equal-Area Cylindrical projection Lambert, Johann Heinrich Lambert, Johann Heinrich Lambert, Johann Heinrich Lambert, Johann Heinrich latitude and longitude converting latitude types converting latitude types converting latitude types converting latitude types converting latitude types converting latitude types converting latitude types converting latitude types converting latitude types converting latitude types converting latitude types converting latitude types finding corresponding time zone finding for map entries interpolation interpolation interpolation interpolation limits of regular matrix map limits of regular matrix map See also map frame, setting limits See also map limits latitude, defined lcolorbar legs course and distance of defined legs legs legs light object light objects light objects, displaying lightm lightm lightm limitm limitm limitm line objects line objects line objects line objects displaying linem linem loadcape loadmoonalb logical maps calculating surface area defined longitude converting between ranges longitude, defined Lorgna projection los2 loximuth Loximuthal projection loxodromes See rhumb lines ltln2val ltln2val majaxis makemapped makemapped map deleting precision map axes accessing properties accessing properties default values defined defining a map projection defining map projection defining map projection differences from standard axes inset maps modifying properties resetting to default properties retrieving map structure retrieving properties setting properties setting properties setting properties setting properties testing map data extracting from data structures filtering querying See also matrix data See also vector data map definition map frame adjusting for a new projection controlling appearance defined displaying displaying modifying properties resetting altitude setting limits setting limits setting limits setting properties setting properties setting properties trimming objects trimming objects to map grid controlling appearance defined displaying displaying modifying properties resetting altitude setting properties setting properties setting properties map grid labels displaying displaying modifying properties setting properties setting properties map layers map legend defined map legend vector map limits adjusting for a new projection setting setting versus frame limits map origin See origin map projection aspect azimuthal base central changing choosing computations conformal conic cylindrical defined defined defining defining defining for a map axes distortion distortion equal-area equidistant globe gnomonic identification strings names orthographic polyconic stereographic switching table of properties two-dimensional vs. three-dimensional vectors map scale between axes printing mapmtx workspace mapped object versus standard object mapped objects converting from standard objects manipulating by name trimming to map frame mapprofile maps previewing printing maps maps maptool activating menus mouse tool buttons maptool maptrim maptrim maptriml maptriml maptrimp maptrimp maptrims Marinus of Tyre Marinus of Tyre Mars See almanac maskm maskm mat2dms mat2dms mat2hms mat2hms MATLAB graphics projecting matrix data displaying displaying displaying displaying displaying displaying displaying as lighted displaying as lighted displaying as shaded relief displaying as shaded relief resizing trimming trimming matrix map constructing graticule mesh encoding regions NaNs ones replacing elements replacing elements resizing sparse zeros zeros matrix maps coloring coloring creating base map from defined displaying gradient graticules indexed maps indexed maps indexed maps indexed maps,creating logical maps replacing entries replacing entries See also general matrix maps See also regular matrix maps valued maps McBryde, F. Webster McBryde, F. Webster McBryde, F. Webster McBryde-Thomas Flat-Polar Parabolic projection McBryde-Thomas Flat-Polar Quartic projection McBryde-Thomas Flat-Polar Sinusoidal projection mdistort mdistort mean of geographic data mean of geographic points meanm meanm mercator Mercator Equal-Area projection Mercator projection Mercator projection Mercator projection Mercator projection Mercator projection Mercator projection Mercator projection Mercator, Gerardus Mercator, Gerardus Mercury See almanac meridian labels meridians controlling display defined mesh See graticule mesh meshgrat meshgrat meshgrat meshlsrm meshlsrm meshlsrm meshm meshm meshm mfwdtran miller Miller Cylindrical projection Miller, Osborn Maitland minaxis minaxis minvtran mlabel mlayers mlayers mobjects modsine mollweid Mollweide projection Mollweide projection Mollweide, Carl B. moon albedo data terrain data Moon See almanac mouse interaction with displayed maps mouse interactions defining small circles placing text processing button down callbacks selecting coordinates Murdoch I Conic projection Murdoch III Minimum Error Conic projection Murdoch, Patrick Murdoch, Patrick murdoch1 murdoch3 n2ecc name namem nanclip nanm nanm NaNs, matrix map National Geographic Society navfix navfix navfix navigation angular conventions calculating course and distance calculating dead reckoning positions calculating waypoints connecting waypoints distance conventions fixing position fixing position retrieving time zone for longitude retrieving time zone for longitude speed conventions navigational fixing navigational fixing navigational fixing navigational track calculating segments between waypoints navigational track format navigational tracks connecting waypoints displaying format Neptune See almanac neworig neworig newpole newpole newpole nm2deg nm2km nm2rad nm2sm Nordic projection normal aspect npi2pi npi2pi objects assigning tag assigning tag deleting deleting displaying displaying editing properties of hiding hiding interacting modifying zdata modifying zdata retrieving handle retrieving handle retrieving name testing if mapped oblique aspect ocean mask oceanlo workspace onem onem ones matrix map Ordinary Polyconic projection org2pol orientation See origin vector origin computing computing interactive modification transformation origin vector See also projection aspect originui ortho Orthographic projection Orthographic projection Orthographic projection orthographic projection Orthophanic projection panzoom panzoom paperscale paperscale par2geod parallel labels parallels controlling display defined parallelui patch drawing functions differences between patch objects patch objects patch objects patch objects displaying patches projecting patchesm patchesm patchesm patchm patchm patchm pcarree pcolorm pcolorm Peters projection piloting See navigational fixing plabel planetary data planetary data Plate Carree projection Plate Carrée projection Plate Carrée projection Plate Carrée projection Plate Carrée projection plot3m plot3m plot3m plotm plotm plotm plotm Pluto See almanac polcmap polcmap pole transformation polybool polybool polycon Polyconic projection polyconic projection polygon boolean operations buffer zones displaying as line object displaying as patch object eliminating dateline crossing extracting segments intersection points merging segments surface area polygon surface area polyjoin polymerge polysplit polyxpoly polyxpoly polyxpoly position dead reckoning reckoning Postel projection Postel projection Postel, Guillaume previewmap printing maps project project projection data data objects projection See map projection projection aspect normal oblique See also origin vector skew-oblique transverse Projection of Marinus Projection of Marinus property editors Click-and-Drag Guide Ptolemy, Claudius Ptolemy, Claudius Putnins Putnins P4 projection Putnins P5 projection Putnins, Reinholds V. putnins5 putpole qrydata quadrangle surface area quartic Quartic Authalic projection querying map data quiver quiver3m quiver3m quiverm quiverm quiverm rad2deg rad2dm rad2dms rad2km rad2nm rad2sm radians notation radius of auxiliary sphere radius of curvature radius of planets radius of planets See almanac Rand McNally range angles angles finding cross fix position raster data See matrix data raster maps See matrix maps rc2yx rcurve readfields readFK5 readfk5 reading ASCII files readmtx rec2geod reckon reckon reckoning reckoning reckoning position Rectangular projection Rectangular projection reducem reducem reducing data See vector data regular matrix map calculating required matrix size creating colormap displaying as image encoding encoding regions latitude and longitude limits latitude and longitude limits projecting projecting projecting shaded relief retrieving values seeds for encoding surface area transforming to new coordinate system origin trimming regular matrix maps accessing elements defined determining limits determining size with scaling displaying displaying displaying image and surface coloring displaying shaded relief encoding See also matrix maps resizem restack rhumb line track calculating from one point calculating from two points displaying rhumb lines approximating great circle tracks with calculating points defined rhumb lines intersection rhxrh rhxrh robinson Robinson projection Robinson, Arthur H. rootlayr rotatem rotatem rotatetext rounding roundn rsphere russia workspace Ruysch, Johannes Sanson-Flamsteed projection satbath Saturn See almanac scale between axes printing scaleruler scaleruler scatterm scatterm scatterm scatterm scircle1 scircle1 scircle2 scircle2 scircleg scircleg scircleg scirclui scxsc scxsc sec2hm sec2hms sec2hr seconds notation seedm seedm semimajor axis semiminor axis setltln setltln setm setm setm setm setm setpostn setpostn shaded relief map constructing cdata constructing colormap general matrix map regular matrix map shaded relief maps shaderel showaxes showm showm showm Siemon, Karl Siemon, Karl Simple Conic projection Simple Cylindrical projection simplifying data See vector data sinusoid Sinusoidal projection Sinusoidal projection Sinusoidal projection Sinusoidal projection Sinusoidal projection Sinusoidal projection sizem sizem skew-oblique aspect slope defined sm2deg sm2km sm2nm sm2rad small circles calculating calculating calculating points defined defining with mouse displaying intersection intersection with great circles smoothlong spcread speed units format for navigation functions spzerom spzerom Stab Stabius, Johannes Stab-Werner projection standard deviation of geographic data standard deviation of geographic points standard distance of geographic points standard parallels for conic projections stars workspace stars workspace stdist stdist stdm stdm stem plot, example stem3m stem3m stem3m stereo Stereographic projection Stereographic projection Stereographic projection stereographic projection str2angle Sun See almanac surface area accessing from almanac measuring logical maps measuring polygons measuring quadrangles planets See almanac polygon quadrangle regular matrix map surface distance along a parallel See departure between track waypoints between two points calculating measuring surface objects constructing graticule mesh projecting projecting projecting projecting projecting projecting projecting lighted projecting lighted surface objects, displaying surfacem surfacem surfdist surflm surflm surflm surflsrm surflsrm surflsrm surfm surfm surfm Sylvanus, Bernardus symbol plot, example tagm tagm tbase TerrainBase model text interacting with mouse placement projecting projecting text objects trimming to map frame textm textm texture mapping onto digital elevation maps tgrline tgrline Thales Thomas, Paul D. Thomas, Paul D. Thomas, Paul D. TIGER data ArcInfo files MIF files reading FIPS name files TIGER/Line data TIGER Thinned data TIGER/Line data tigermif tigermif tigerp tigerp tightmap tightmap time converting to matrix elements converting to string converting units converting units converting units converting units converting units converting units converting units time units conventions for navigation converting between formats description of formats time zone determining from longitude time zones navigational time2str time2str timedim timedim timezone timezone timezone tissot tissot tissot tissot indicatrices projecting Tissot Modified Sinusoidal projection Tissot, N. A. Tobler, Waldo R. topo workspace topo workspace topographical maps See digital elevation maps (DEMs) track See great circle track See navigational track See rhumb line track track track track waypoints azimuth distance track1 track1 track2 track2 track2 trackg trackg trackg tracks See great circles See rhumb lines trackui transformation of coordinate system See coordinate transformation transverse aspect Transverse Mercator projection transverse Mercator projection trimcart trimcart trimming data trimming data trisurf trystan Trystan Edwards Cylindrical projection Trystan Edwards Cylindrical projection Tunhuang star chart U.S. Army U.S. matrix data political terrain U.S. vector data creating base maps low resolution medium resolution uimaptbx units converting See conversion See angle units See distance units See time units testing for valid abbreviations testing for valid strings unitstr Universal Polar Stereographic (UPS) projection Universal Polar Stereographic projection Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) projection Universal Transverse Mercator projection Universal Transverse Mercator projection ups UPS projection Uranus See almanac usahi usahi function usahi workspace usalo usalo workspace usalo workspace usalo workspace usamap usamap usamap usamap usamap usamtx workspace UserData property used by the Mapping Toolbox used by the Mapping Toolbox USGS DEM data reading files reading files returning filenames usgs24kdem usgsdem usgsdem usgsdem usgsdems usgsdems UTM ellipsoid for zone utm utm UTM projection UTM projection utmgeoid utmzone valued maps defined Van der Grinten I projection Van der Grinten projection Van der Grinten, Alphons J. vec2mtx vec2mtx vec2mtx vector data calculating intersections converting to matrix format creating creating displaying as lines displaying as lines displaying as lines displaying as lines displaying as patches displaying as patches displaying as patches displaying as patches displaying as patches geographic interpolation reducing simplifying/reducing trimming trimming trimming data to a region Vector Map Level 0 vector maps data format of defined delineation of objects in displaying as lines displaying as patches vectors projected directions Venus See almanac Vertical Perspective Azimuthal projection vfwdtran vfwdtran vfwdtran vgrint1 viewshed defined viewshed vinvtran VMAP0 command line interface importing interactively low level access vmap0data vmap0read vmap0rhead vmap0ui vmap0ui volume of planets volume of planets See almanac von Hammer, H. H. Ernst vperspec Wagner I projection Wagner IV projection Wagner, Karlheinz Wagner, Karlheinz wagner4 waypoints calculating calculating connecting defined See also track waypoints selecting with mouse werner Werner projection Werner projection Werner, Johannes westof wetch Wetch Cylindrical projection Wetch projection Wetch, J. wiechel Wiechel projection Wiechel, H. winkel Winkel I projection Winkel, Oswald world matrix data political data terrain data world vector data atlas data, high-resolution atlas data, low-resolution coastline data deleting data with tags displaying atlas data displaying atlas data extracting data with tags worldhi worldhi worldhi workspace worldlo worldlo function worldlo function worldlo workspace worldmap worldmap worldmap worldmtxmed workspace Wright projection Wright, Edward Young, A. E. yx2rc zdatam zdatam Zenithal Equal-Area projection Zenithal Equidistant projection Zenithal Equivalent projection Zenithal projection Zenithal projection zero22pi zero22pi zerom zerom zeros creating matrix map creating sparse matrix map zooming in and out of map displays