6 Jul
2017
6 Jul
'17
12:25 p.m.
On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Nigel wrote:
In which country. I've never seen UTM before.
On 06 July 2017 at 13:25 "Kenneth L. Bechtel, II" <
kbechtel@teamanti-virus.org> wrote:
Just to put it out there, many services, such as Search and Rescue use
UTM,
Universal Transverse Mercator, which divides the entire earth into a grid. However, at least in parts of the United States, many SAR groups are shifting to using the United States National Grid (USNG) system, which is what the Federal Emergency Management Agency uses.
Bruce in Blacksburg
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Bruce B. Harper
2nd Lt. Recruitment and Retention
Search Team Leader/Public Information Officer
Southwest Virginia Mountain Rescue Group