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Use of polynomial function equation for grid transformation

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12-02-2017 02:34 PM
MakisLeras02-16-17
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I have a cartographic project in Greece. The raster data go back in' 50s and '60s. That time the geographic system that was used was HATT (hellenic azimuthial). As a result the most of my raster file use that strange grid. The greek military geography service has published a method for the transformation of the hatt grid data to Greek Grid (2100). This method uses 2nd degree polyonomial function as you can see bellow

Where:

Αx and Bx are factors given by GMS 

Χi, Yi   the coordinates in HATT system  and

Ei,Ni    the result coordinates in Greek Grid (epsg 2100).

 It a problem  that i can solve easily in excel but i need to create a custom transformation to use with raster data. 

unfortunately CreateCustomGeoTransformation doesn't seem to support a custom equation only the following

Geocentric_Translation, Molodensky, Molodensky_Abridged, Position_Vector, Coordinate_Frame, Molodensky_Badekas, NADCON, HARN, NTV2, Longitude_Rotation, Unit_Change, and Geographic_2D_Offset

Any ideas?

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MelitaKennedy
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I'm sorry that I didn't reply earlier.

Yes, that's correct. We currently don't support any polynomial transformations in the Esri projection engine. It's possible that's there's a way do a custom transformation using raster functions/tools but I don't know offhand how it would be done.

Another possibility would be to build a grid of offsets using the polynomial equations and then use the grid (raster) to convert the maps or convert the offsets to use a lat/lon grid file. For the latter make a NTv2 grid or NADCON-style files--then you could use the Create Custom Geographic Transformation tool.

Melita