Description of CRS - GR_GGRS87 / GR_TM
AttributeEntry
CountryGreece
Country identifierGR
CRS identifierGR_GGRS87 / GR_TM
CRS alias
CRS valid areaGreece
CRS scope
CRS remarks
Datum identifierGGRS87
Datum alias
Greek Geodetic Reference System 1987
Datum typegeodetic
Datum anchor point
Greece, Dionysos
Lat = 38°04'33.8107" N
Lon = 23°55'51.0095" E 
h = 481.743 m
Datum realization epoch1987
Datum valid area
Greece
Datum scope
Datum remarks
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 identifierGR_TM
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 identifierGR_TM
Operation valid areaGreece
Operation scope
Operation method nameTransverse Mercator Projection
Operation method name alias
Gauß Krüger Projection
Operation method formula
Transverse Mercator Mapping Equations, in Hooijberg, 
Practical Geodesy, 1997, pages 81-84 
Operation method parameters number5
Operation method remarks
projection in one zone for the whole country
Operation parameter namelatidue of origin
Operation parameter value
Operation parameter remarks0°, the Equator
Operation parameter namelongitude of origin
Operation parameter value
24° E
Operation parameter remarkscentral meridian for the whole territory of Greece
Operation parameter namefalse northing
Operation parameter value
0 m
Operation parameter remarks
Operation parameter namefalse easting
Operation parameter value
500 000 m
Operation parameter remarksonly one zone
Operation parameter namescale factor at central meridian
Operation parameter value
0.9996
Operation parameter remarks