Global Area Reference System
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global-area-reference-system-323-4332372
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Global Area Reference System
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The Global Area Reference System (GARS) is a standardized geospatial reference system developed by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for use across the United States Department of Defense. Under the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction CJCSI 3900.01C dated 30 June 2007, GARS was adopted for use by the US DoD as "the “area-centric” counterpart to the “point-centric” MGRS". It uses the WGS 1984 Datum and is based on lines of longitude (LONG) and latitude (LAT). It is i
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Standardized geospatial reference system
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Area_Reference_System
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2022-12-13T12:54:01Z
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