EPSG systems

EPSG:8982 SIRGAS-CON SIR10P01

Geographic system in latitude and longitude, in use: Latin America - Central America and South America. Datum, ellipsoid and transformation to WGS 84 below.

EPSG publishes no simple transformation to WGS 84 for this datum: conversion works on the ellipsoid alone and can be off by tens of metres.

System record
CodeEPSG:8982
NameSIRGAS-CON SIR10P01
TypeGeographic system
Area of use Latin America - Central America and South America
Latin America - Central America and South America, onshore and offshore.
Bounds W -122,19° · S -59,87° · E -25,28° · N 32,72°
Countries World
DatumSIRGAS Continuously Operating Network SIR10P01
Ellipsoid GRS 1980 a = 6378137 m · 1/f = 298.257222101
Unit degree (Lat north, Lon east)
Transformation to WGS 84 No simple transformation published (ellipsoid alone)
ScopeGeodesy.

proj4 definition

+proj=longlat +ellps=GRS80 +no_defs

Paste it into QGIS, proj4js, PostGIS (spatial_ref_sys) or GDAL. +towgs84 carries the EPSG transformation to WGS 84; the official code stays EPSG:8982.

WKT (ESRI format, the .prj content)

GEOGCS["SIRGAS-CON_SIR10P01",DATUM["SIRGAS_Continuously_Operating_Network_SIR10P01",SPHEROID["GRS_1980",6378137.0,298.257222101]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]]

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Source: EPSG registry v11.022 (IOGP), through the PROJ database. Always check a code on epsg.org before contractual work.