A Study on Fast Datum Transformation model for GIS

This research focuses on the development of a fast datum transformation model to be used in GIS that utilizes real-time data transformation. Instance, when a GIS data constructed according to a datum is conformed to another datum, instead of transforming the axes of the original data, the data is transformed right before the results are reflected on the monitor. In this research, the prospects of calculating transformation parameters for every grid cells on the area based on two-dimensional conformal transformation model in order to decrease real-time datum transformation time while maintaining a high accuracy has been investigated. Research results showed that for a fixed area, the accuracies of the two-dimensional conformal transformation and the three-dimensional datum transformation, which requires more computing time, were almost equal and fast transformation speed, high accuracy real-time datum transformation is made feasible by implementing the grid-divided two-dimensional conformal transformation model.