geodesy

Functions for handling geographical coordinate systems and reference ellipsoids.

Unless otherwise stated functions are ported from atmlab-2-3-181.

asind(x)	Inverse sine in degrees.
cart2geocentric(x, y, z[, lat0, lon0, za0, aa0])	Convert cartesian position to spherical coordinates.
cart2geodetic(x, y, z[, ellipsoid])	Convert from cartesian to geodetic coordinates.
cartposlos2geocentric(x, y, z, dx, dy, dz[, ...])	Convert cartesian POS/LOS to spherical coordinates.
cosd(x)	Cosine of argument in degrees.
ellipsoid2d(ellipsoid, orbitinc)	Approximate ellipsoid for 2D calculations.
ellipsoid_r_geocentric(ellipsoid, lat)	Geocentric radius of a reference ellipsoid.
ellipsoid_r_geodetic(ellipsoid, lat)	Geodetic radius of a reference ellipsoid.
ellipsoidcurvradius(ellipsoid, lat_gd, azimuth)	Sets ellispoid to local curvature radius
ellipsoidmodels()	Provide data for different reference ellipsoids.
geocentric2cart(r, lat, lon)	Convert from spherical coordinate to a cartesian position.
geocentric2geodetic(r, lat, lon[, ellipsoid])	Convert from geocentric to geodetic coordinates.
geocentricposlos2cart(r, lat, lon, za, aa)	Convert from spherical POS/LOS to cartesian POS/LOS
geodetic2cart(h, lat, lon[, ellipsoid])	Convert from geodetic to geocentric cartesian coordinates.
geodetic2geocentric(h, lat, lon[, ellipsoid])	Convert from geodetic to geocentric coordinates.
geographic_mean(lat, lon[, h, ellipsoid])	Calculate mean position for set of coordinates.
great_circle_distance(lat1, lon1, lat2, lon2)	Calculate the distance between two geographical positions
inrange(x, minx, maxx[, exclude, text])	Test if x is within given bounds.
sind(x)	Sine of argument in degrees.
tand(x)	Tangent of argument in degrees.