ArcObjects Library Reference (Geometry)  

IVerticalCoordinateSystem Interface

Provides access to properties of a vertical coordinate system.

Product Availability

Available with ArcGIS Engine, ArcGIS Desktop, and ArcGIS Server.

Description

A vertical coordinate system has two types. It can either be gravity-related, which requires a VerticalDatum; or ellipsoid/spheroid-based which requires a horizontal Datum. A horizontal Datum is the same as one used for a geographic coordinate system. It has a linear unit of measure. A VCS has two parameters. The positiveDirection value defines whether the vertical coordinate system has positive values 'up', for heights, or 'down', for depths. Use -1 for positive depths. The verticalShift parameter is a way to identify this VCS as offset from some other known surface. For example, you might know that a dataset's depths are referenced to mean lower low water (a tidal level). You might also know that for this dataset, mean lower low water is 1.23 meters 'down' from local mean sea level. The VCS could be defined for mean sea level but with a verticalShift of -1.23 to shift the 'zero' level to mean lower low water.

You can use ISpatialReferenceFactory3 to create a predefined VCS or use the IVerticalCoordinateSystemEdit interface to create a custom VCS.

Members

Description
Read-only property Abbreviation The abbreviated name of this spatial reference component.
Read-only property Alias The alias of this spatial reference component.
Read/write property CoordinateUnit The linear unit of a vertical coordinate system.
Read-only property Datum The datum of a vertical coordinate system.
Read-only property FactoryCode The factory code (WKID) of the spatial reference.
Method GetParameters Gets the vertical coordinate system parameters.
Read-only property Name The name of this spatial reference component.
Read/write property PositiveDirection The positive direction of the z coordinates. Up is 1. Down (in the direction of gravity) is -1.
Read-only property Remarks The comment string of this spatial reference component.
Read-only property Usage The usage notes of a vertical coordinate system.
Read/write property VerticalShift The vertical shift of a vertical coordinate system.

Inherited Interfaces

Interfaces Description
ISpatialReferenceInfo Provides access to members that control the properties common to all components of a spatial reference system.

CoClasses that implement IVerticalCoordinateSystem

CoClasses and Classes Description
VerticalCoordinateSystem Creates a vertical coordinate system.

.NET Related Topics

Creating a custom vertical coordinate system | Creating a predefined vertical coordinate system |