Geographic east-north-up cartesian

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  • Geographic East-North-Up Cartesian
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  • Belongs to the Local Tangent Plane (LTP) class of coordinate systems: Cartesian, XY plane is tangential to Earth surface at the measurement location and Z is normal to the plane. ENU: Y: points to the geographic North pole. Z: points vertically up to zenith, X: makes the right-hand system, i.e., points to East in the tangential plane.
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  • ENU
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