Description of CRS - ETRS89-LAEA
AttributeEntry
Countrypan-European CRS
Country identifierEU
CRS identifierETRS89-LAEA
CRS alias
ETRS89 Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area CRS
ETRS-LAEA
EPSG code: 3035
CRS valid areaEurope
CRS scopeCRS for pan-European statistical mapping at all scales or other purposes where true area representation is required
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 identifierLAEA
Coordinate system typeprojected
Coordinate system dimension2
Coordinate system remarks
Coordinate system axis nameY
Coordinate system axis directionNorth
Coordinate system axis unit identifiermetre
Coordinate system axis nameX
Coordinate system axis directionEast
Coordinate system axis unit identifiermetre
Operation identifierLAEA
Operation valid areaEurope
Operation scopefor pan-European statistical mapping at all scales or other purposes where true area representation is required
Operation method nameLambert Azimuthal Equal Area Projection
Operation method name alias
Operation method formula
US Geological Survey Professional Publication 1395, "Map 
Projection - A Working Manual" by John P. Snyder. 
Operation method parameters number4
Operation method remarks
Operation parameter namelatitude of origin
Operation parameter value
52° N
Operation parameter remarks
Operation parameter namelongitude of origin
Operation parameter value
10° E
Operation parameter remarks
Operation parameter namefalse northing
Operation parameter value
3 210 000.0 m
Operation parameter remarks
Operation parameter namefalse easting
Operation parameter value
4 321 000.0 m
Operation parameter remarks