Military Grid Reference System and Moscow State Forest University: Difference between pages

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'''Moscow State Forest University''' (MSFU) is a specialized establishment of higher education which trains engineering personnel, scientists as well as bachelors and masters for forest industry, wood processing and pulp-and-paper industry and is the major educational and scientific centre of forest complex of the country.

The '''Military Grid Reference System''' is the geographic standard used by the [[United States]] [[Armed Forces]] and [[NATO]] for locating any point on the earth with a 2 to 10 character [[geocode]]. A two digit code implies a precision of 10km and a ten digit code corresponds to a 1m precision with intermediate steps of 1km, 100m, and 10m. It is always displayed in an even number of characters preceded by an alpha-numeric code describing the larger Earth area to which it belongs.

There are 9 faculties in [[university]] specialized in forest engineering and 1 faculty specialized in electronics and computer science [[FEST|Faculty of Computer Science (aka FEST)]]. [[FEST]] was founded in 1959 on initiative by academician [[Sergey Pavlovich Korolev]].

==External links==

For instance 38 S MC12345678 would be read as

* [http://www.mgul.ac.ru/eng/ MSFU site]

[[Category:Forestry]]

Section: 38

[[Category:Universities and colleges in Moscow]]

Sub Section: S

Map Section: MC

Map Point: 12345678

The map point is broken down further into to equally sized parts of 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 digits. In this example it would be:

1234 and 5678

Like any mapping standard you read from West to East first, then from South to North. So 1234 would be your Latitudinal equivalent and 5678 would be your longitudinal equivalent.

It is a derivative of the [[Universal Transverse Mercator]] mapping system.

==External links==

*[http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/coordsys/coordsys_f.html A list of coordinate systems] - by Prof. Peter H. Dana at the Univ. of Colorado