solarspatialtools.spatial.latlon2utm

solarspatialtools.spatial.latlon2utm(lat, lon, zone=None)

Convert a latitude/longitude pair from WGS84 into UTM coordinates.

Parameters

latnumeric

a value of latitude in degrees, or an indexable array of latitudes, or a Pandas Series (indices for lat and lon must match)

lonnumeric

a value of latitude in degrees, or an indexable array of latitudes, or a Pandas Series (indices for lat and lon must match)

zonenumeric

the UTM zone (number only). Calculated from longitude if None

Returns

(east, north)numeric

a tuple of the UTM (Easting, Northing) for the site. For input arrays or lists, the output will be a numpy array of E,N pairs. For inputs that are Pandas types, the output will have columns ‘E’ and ‘N’ and will share an index with the input.