Q. Which of the following projection types is adopted in the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)?
(A) Spherical
(B) Conical
(C) Planar
(D) Cylindrical
Ans: Cylindrical
Explanation: A projected coordinate system such as universal transverse Mercator (UTM) uses 60 horizontally oriented cylinders (tangent to a Meridian) to project maps of the earth’s spherical surface onto a two-dimensional Cartesian coordinate plane.
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