Description of CRS - AT_ETRS89 / Austria Lambert
AttributeEntry
CountryAustria
Country identifierAT
CRS identifierAT_ETRS89 / Austria Lambert
CRS alias
CRS valid areaAustria
CRS scopeMedium and small scale mapping and GIS
CRS remarks
replaces AT_MGI / AT_Lambert (EPSG 31287)
Datum identifierETRS89
Datum alias
European Terrestrial Reference System 1989
Datum typegeodetic
Datum anchor point
Datum realization epoch
Datum valid area
Europe
Datum scope
European datum consistent with ITRS at the epoch 1989.0 
and fixed to the stable part of the Eurasian continental 
plate for georeferencing of GIS and geokinematic tasks 
Datum remarks
see
Boucher, C., Altamimi, Z. (1992): The EUREF Terrestrial 
Reference System and its First Realizations. 
Veröffentlichungen der Bayerischen Kommission für die 
Internationale Erdmessung, Heft 52, München 1992, pages 
205-213 
- or -
http://etrs89.ensg.ign.fr/
Prime meridian identifierGreenwich
Prime meridian greenwich longitude
Prime meridian remarks
Ellipsoid identifierGRS 80
Ellipsoid aliasNew International
Ellipsoid semi major axis6 378 137 m
Ellipsoid shapetrue
Ellipsoid inverse flattening298.257222101
Ellipsoid remarkssee Moritz, H. (1988): Geodetic Reference System 1980. Bulletin Geodesique, The Geodesists Handbook, 1988, Internat. Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
Coordinate system identifierAustria Lambert
Coordinate system typeprojected
Coordinate system dimension2
Coordinate system remarks
Coordinate system axis nameX / northing
Coordinate system axis directionNorth
Coordinate system axis unit identifiermetre
Coordinate system axis nameY / easting
Coordinate system axis directionEast
Coordinate system axis unit identifiermetre
Operation identifierAustria Lambert
Operation valid areaAustria
Operation scope
Operation method nameLambert Conformal Conic Projection with 2 standard parallels
Operation method name alias
Operation method formula
Lambert Conformal Conic Projection, in Hooijberg, 
Practical Geodesy, 1997, pages 133-139 
Operation method parameters number6
Operation method remarks
Operation parameter namelower parallel
Operation parameter value
46°N
Operation parameter remarks
Operation parameter nameupper parallel
Operation parameter value
49°N
Operation parameter remarks
Operation parameter namelatidude of grid origin
Operation parameter value
47°30'N
Operation parameter remarks
Operation parameter namelongitude grid origin
Operation parameter value
13°20' E wrt Greenwich
Operation parameter remarks
Operation parameter namefalse northing
Operation parameter value
400 000 m
Operation parameter remarks
Operation parameter namefalse easting
Operation parameter value
400 000 m
Operation parameter remarks