Description of CRS - BE_ETRS89 / LB08
AttributeEntry
CountryBelgium
Country identifierBE
CRS identifierBE_ETRS89 / LB08
CRS alias
Lambert2008
CRS valid areaBelgium
CRS scope
CRS remarks
Datum identifierETRS89
Datum alias
European Terrestrial Reference System 1989
Datum typegeodetic
Datum anchor point
Datum realization epoch
Datum valid area
Europe
Datum scope
European datum consistent with ITRS at the epoch 1989.0 
and fixed to the stable part of the Eurasian continental 
plate for georeferencing of GIS and geokinematic tasks 
Datum remarks
see
Boucher, C., Altamimi, Z. (1992): The EUREF Terrestrial 
Reference System and its First Realizations. 
Veröffentlichungen der Bayerischen Kommission für die 
Internationale Erdmessung, Heft 52, München 1992, pages 
205-213 
- or -
http://etrs89.ensg.ign.fr/
Prime meridian identifierGreenwich
Prime meridian greenwich longitude
Prime meridian remarks
Ellipsoid identifierGRS 80
Ellipsoid aliasNew International
Ellipsoid semi major axis6 378 137 m
Ellipsoid shapetrue
Ellipsoid inverse flattening298.257222101
Ellipsoid remarkssee Moritz, H. (1988): Geodetic Reference System 1980. Bulletin Geodesique, The Geodesists Handbook, 1988, Internat. Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
Coordinate system identifierLB08
Coordinate system typeprojected
Coordinate system dimension2
Coordinate system remarks
Coordinate system axis namex
Coordinate system axis directionEast
Coordinate system axis unit identifiermetre
Coordinate system axis namey
Coordinate system axis directionNorth
Coordinate system axis unit identifiermetre
Operation identifierLB08
Operation valid areaBelgium
Operation scope
Operation method nameLambert Conformal Conic Projection with 2 standard parallels
Operation method name alias
Operation method formula
Lambert Conformal Conic Projection, in Hooijberg, 
Practical Geodesy, 1997, pages 133-139 
Operation method parameters number6
Operation method remarks
Operation parameter namelower parallel
Operation parameter value
49°50' N
Operation parameter remarks
Operation parameter nameupper parallel
Operation parameter value
51°10' N
Operation parameter remarks
Operation parameter namelatitude grid origin
Operation parameter value
50°47'52.134" N
Operation parameter remarks
Operation parameter namelongitude grid origin
Operation parameter value
4°21'33.177" E
Operation parameter remarks
Operation parameter namefalse northing
Operation parameter value
665 262.0 m
Operation parameter remarks
Operation parameter namefalse easting
Operation parameter value
649 328.0 m
Operation parameter remarks