Abstract—The modern technologies and developments in
computers and Global Positioning System (GPS) as well as
Geographic Information System (GIS), become very important
in present time in mapping and sea navigation. Traditional
map projection systems are not suitable for modern
technologies, because they haven`t high accuracy in
determining the position of features, also when calculating the
distances compared by Indirect Problems of Geodesy (I.P.G) it
have bad results.
This paper presents new method for map projection use in
sea navigation specially in sea narrow paths were the risk of
ship crash become very high. The map projection by harmonic
equations method was used. The results show that the error in
short distances was between 0.0 and 30.0 cm compared with
20.0 cm and 450.0 cm error when UTM system was used. Local
system method by harmonic equations shows better results
than other methods.
Index Terms—Map projection, GPS, GIS, Harmonic
equations, UTM, Geodesy.
Akresh Mohammed Sabri is with surveying & mapping, Tripoli
University
Ali Said is with surveying & GIS, Tripoli University (e-mail:
ali_said_ly@yahoo.com)
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Cite:Akresh Mohammed Sabri and Ali Said, "The Ideal Map Projection for Sea Ports," Journal of Clean Energy Technologies vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 171-174, 2014.
