INVESTIGATING HOW ARCGIS PRO APPLIES COORDINATE TRANSFORMATIONS USING A SEPARATE REFERENCE SOFTWARE AS A CHECK

Abstract

This project is focusing on the investigation and evaluation of the software that is used heavily in the geomatics field which is the ArcGIS Pro from ESRI. The software will be going throw some list of tests that will focus on the coordinate transformation tool that the software is offering. The result of the test will be compared with number of well-established transformation tools that will be provided to the project by the university. The data that will be used is a coordinate of a Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) which is part of the Saudi Arabia National Spatial Reference System (SANSRS) geodetic infrastructure. The transformation will be between different versions of The International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF) and the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84).