Which of the following projection types is adopted in the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)?
Which of the following projection types is adopted in the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)?

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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