I am relatively new to using ArcMap, so I apologize for what I guess is a relatively easy question. I working with a gridded PRISM precipitation raster (www.prism.oregonstate.edu), which has a standard NAD83 coordinate system. It's spatial reference is listed as:
GCS_North_American_1983WKID: 4269 Authority: EPSGAngular Unit: Degree (0.0174532925199433)Prime Meridian: Greenwich (0.0)Datum: D_North_American_1983 Spheroid: GRS_1980 Semimajor Axis: 6378137.0 Semiminor Axis: 6356752.314140356 Inverse Flattening: 298.257222101I am trying to determine if I need to reproject this raster before I use it with a shapefile of watershed polygons that also has a NAD83 coordinate system, but is projected using:
NAD_1983_StatePlane_Virginia_North_FIPS_4501_FeetWKID: 2283 Authority: EPSGProjection: Lambert_Conformal_ConicFalse_Easting: 11482916.66666666False_Northing: 6561666.666666666Central_Meridian: -78.5Standard_Parallel_1: 38.03333333333333Standard_Parallel_2: 39.2Latitude_Of_Origin: 37.66666666666666Linear Unit: Foot_US (0.3048006096012192)Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_North_American_1983Angular Unit: Degree (0.0174532925199433)Prime Meridian: Greenwich (0.0)Datum: D_North_American_1983 Spheroid: GRS_1980 Semimajor Axis: 6378137.0 Semiminor Axis: 6356752.314140356 Inverse Flattening: 298.257222101A few things have gotten me confused here:
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GCS_North_American_1983WKID: 4269 Authority: EPSGAngular Unit: Degree (0.0174532925199433)Prime Meridian: Greenwich (0.0)Datum: D_North_American_1983 Spheroid: GRS_1980 Semimajor Axis: 6378137.0 Semiminor Axis: 6356752.314140356 Inverse Flattening: 298.257222101I am trying to determine if I need to reproject this raster before I use it with a shapefile of watershed polygons that also has a NAD83 coordinate system, but is projected using:
NAD_1983_StatePlane_Virginia_North_FIPS_4501_FeetWKID: 2283 Authority: EPSGProjection: Lambert_Conformal_ConicFalse_Easting: 11482916.66666666False_Northing: 6561666.666666666Central_Meridian: -78.5Standard_Parallel_1: 38.03333333333333Standard_Parallel_2: 39.2Latitude_Of_Origin: 37.66666666666666Linear Unit: Foot_US (0.3048006096012192)Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_North_American_1983Angular Unit: Degree (0.0174532925199433)Prime Meridian: Greenwich (0.0)Datum: D_North_American_1983 Spheroid: GRS_1980 Semimajor Axis: 6378137.0 Semiminor Axis: 6356752.314140356 Inverse Flattening: 298.257222101A few things have gotten me confused here:
- I thought ArcMap automatically reprojected on the fly to whateversystem was specified for the data frame, at least within the same coordinate system. When I use the Project Raster tool, though, and convert the raster from GCS_North_American_1983 to NAD_1983_StatePlane_Virginia_North_FIPS_4501_Feet, it rotates the raster slightly.
- When I change the default projection of the data frame from NAD_1983_StatePlane_Virginia_North_FIPS_4501_Feet to GCS_North_American_1983 it rotates both the watersheds polygons and raster slightly. The raster then looks the same as if I had used the Project Raster tool above.
- Finally when I use the Project tool on the watershed shapefile and change its projection from NAD_1983_StatePlane_Virginia_North_FIPS_4501_Feet to GCS_North_American_1983, nothing visually changes (ArcMap apparently reprojects the shapefile on the fly).
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