Class MGRSCoordinate

java.lang.Object

org.episteme.natural.earth.coordinates.MGRSCoordinate

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, GeometricObject<EarthCoordinate>, Positioned<EarthCoordinate>, EarthCoordinate

public final class MGRSCoordinate
extends Object
implements EarthCoordinate, Serializable

Military Grid Reference System (MGRS) coordinate. Derived from UTM/UPS systems.

Since:

1.0

Author:

Silvere Martin-Michiellot, Gemini AI (Google DeepMind)

See Also:

• Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
MGRSCoordinate(String zone, String gridSquare, int easting, int northing, int precision)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
int	ambientDimension()	Returns the dimension of the ambient space containing this object.
String	description()	Returns a human-readable description of this geometric object.
int	dimension()	Returns the intrinsic dimension of this geometric object.
static MGRSCoordinate	fromUTM(UTMCoordinate utm)	Converts UTM to MGRS.
String	getCoordinateSystem()	Returns the coordinate system name (e.g., "WGS84", "UTM", "MGRS").
int	getEasting()
ReferenceEllipsoid	getEllipsoid()	Returns the reference ellipsoid used by this coordinate.
String	getGridSquare()
int	getNorthing()
int	getPrecision()
String	getZone()
ECEFCoordinate	toECEF()	Converts this coordinate to ECEF Cartesian form.
GeodeticCoordinate	toGeodetic()	Converts this coordinate to geodetic (lat/lon/height) form.
String	toString()
UTMCoordinate	toUTM()	Converts MGRS back to UTM.

Methods inherited from class Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface EarthCoordinate

distanceTo, getPosition

Constructor Details

MGRSCoordinate

public MGRSCoordinate(String zone,
 String gridSquare,
 int easting,
 int northing,
 int precision)

Method Details

getZone

public String getZone()

getGridSquare

public String getGridSquare()

getEasting

public int getEasting()

getNorthing

public int getNorthing()

getPrecision

public int getPrecision()

getCoordinateSystem

public String getCoordinateSystem()

Description copied from interface: EarthCoordinate

Returns the coordinate system name (e.g., "WGS84", "UTM", "MGRS").

Specified by:

getCoordinateSystem in interface EarthCoordinate

Returns:

the coordinate system identifier

getEllipsoid

public ReferenceEllipsoid getEllipsoid()

Description copied from interface: EarthCoordinate

Returns the reference ellipsoid used by this coordinate.

Specified by:

getEllipsoid in interface EarthCoordinate

Returns:

the ellipsoid model

toGeodetic

public GeodeticCoordinate toGeodetic()

Description copied from interface: EarthCoordinate

Converts this coordinate to geodetic (lat/lon/height) form.

Specified by:

toGeodetic in interface EarthCoordinate

Returns:

the geodetic representation

toECEF

public ECEFCoordinate toECEF()

Description copied from interface: EarthCoordinate

Converts this coordinate to ECEF Cartesian form.

Specified by:

toECEF in interface EarthCoordinate

Returns:

the ECEF representation

toUTM

public UTMCoordinate toUTM()

Converts MGRS back to UTM.

fromUTM

public static MGRSCoordinate fromUTM(UTMCoordinate utm)

Converts UTM to MGRS.

dimension

public int dimension()

Description copied from interface: GeometricObject

Returns the intrinsic dimension of this geometric object.

Examples:

• Point: 0
• Line/Segment: 1
• Plane/Surface: 2
• Volume: 3

Specified by:

dimension in interface EarthCoordinate

Specified by:

dimension in interface GeometricObject<EarthCoordinate>

Returns:

the dimension

ambientDimension

public int ambientDimension()

Description copied from interface: GeometricObject

Returns the dimension of the ambient space containing this object.

For example, a 2D plane in 3D space has dimension=2 but ambientDimension=3.

Specified by:

ambientDimension in interface EarthCoordinate

Specified by:

ambientDimension in interface GeometricObject<EarthCoordinate>

Returns:

the ambient space dimension

description

public String description()

Description copied from interface: GeometricObject

Returns a human-readable description of this geometric object.

Specified by:

description in interface EarthCoordinate

Specified by:

description in interface GeometricObject<EarthCoordinate>

Returns:

description string

toString

public String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class Object