GNU GaMa ellipsoids

revision 0.10

airy 6377563.396 6356256.910 Airy ellipsoid 1830 [4]
airy_mod 6377340.189 6356034.446 Modified Airy [4]
apl1965 6378137 298.25 Appl. Physics. 1965 [4]
andrae1876 6377104.43 300.0 Andrae 1876 (Denmark, Iceland) [4]
australian 6378160 298.25 Australian National 1965 [3]
bessel 6377397.15508 6356078.96290 Bessel ellipsoid 1841 [1]
bessel_nam 6377483.865 299.1528128 Bessel 1841 (Namibia) [4]
clarke1858a 6378361 6356685 Clarke ellipsoid 1858 1st [3]
clarke1858b 6378558 6355810 Clarke ellipsoid 1858 2nd [3]
clarke1866 6378206.4 6356583.8 Clarke ellipsoid 1866 [3]
clarke1880 6378316 6356582 Clarke ellipsoid 1880 [3]
clarke1880m 6378249.145 293.4663 Clarke ellipsoid 1880 (modified) [4]
cpm1799 6375738.7 334.29 Comm. des Poids et Mesures 1799 [4]
delambre 6376428 311.5 Delambre 1810 (Belgium) [4]
engelis 6378136.05 298.2566 Engelis 1985 [4]
everest1830 6377276.345 300.8017 Everest 1830 [4]
everest1848 6377304.063 300.8017 Everest 1948 [4]
everest1856 6377301.243 300.8017 Everest 1956 [4]
everest1869 6377295.664 300.8017 Everest 1969 [4]
everest_ss 6377298.556 300.8017 Everest (Sabah and Sarawak) [4]
fisher1960 6378166 298.3 Fisher 1960 (Mercury Datum) [3] [4]
fisher1960m 6378155 298.3 Modified Fisher 1960 [3] [4]
fischer1968 6378150 298.3 Fischer 1968 [4]
grs67 6378160 298.2471674270 GRS 67 (IUGG 1967) [4]
grs80 6378137 298.257222101 Geodetic Reference System 1980 [1]
hayford 6378388 297 Hayford 1909 (International) [1] [3]
helmert 6378200 298.3 Helmert ellipsoid 1906 [3]
hough 6378270 297 Hough [4]
iau76 6378140 298.257 IAU 1976 [4]
international 6378388 297 International 1924 (Hayford 1909) [1] [3]
kaula 6378163 298.24 Kaula 1961 [4]
krassovski 6378245 298.3 Krassovski ellipsoid 1940 [1]
lerch 6378139 298.257 Lerch 1979 [4]
mprts 6397300 191.0 Maupertius 1738 [4]
mercury 6378166 298.3 Mercury spheroid 1960 [3]
merit 6378137 298.257 MERIT 1983 [4]
new_intl 6378157.5 6356772.2 New International 1967 [4]
nwl1965 6378145 298.25 Naval Weapons Lab., 1965 [4]
plessis 6376523 6355863 Plessis 1817 (France) [4]
se_asia 6378155 6356773.3205 Southeast Asia [4]
sgs85 6378136 298.257 Soviet Geodetic System 85 [4]
schott 6378157 304.5 Schott 1900 spheroid [3]
sa1969 6378160 298.25 South American Spheroid 1969 [3]
walbeck 6376896 6355834.8467 Walbeck [4]
wgs60 6378165 298.3 WGS 60 [4]
wgs66 6378145 298.25 WGS 66 [4]
wgs72 6378135 298.26 WGS 72 [4]
wgs84 6378137 298.257223563 World Geodetic System 1984 [1]

References

[1]
Milos Cimbalnik - Leos Mervart: Vyssi geodezie 1, 1997, Vydavatelstvi CVUT, Praha
[2]
Milos Cimbalnik: Derived Geometrical Constants of the Geodetic Reference System 1980, Studia geoph. et geod. 35 (1991), pp. 133-144, NCSAV, Praha
[3]
Glossary of the Mapping Sciences, Prepared by a Joint Committe of the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping and American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (1994), USA, ISBN 1-57083-011-8, ISBN 0-7844-0050-4
[4]
Gerald Evenden: proj - forward cartographic projection filter (rel. 4.3.3), http://www.remotesensing.org/proj