United States Geoid Model of 1996

The United States geoid models relate the difference between the GRS80 ellipsoid and the NAVD88 vertical datum.

The "GEOID96" vertical transform has the following parameters:

Parameter Name

Parameter String

Units

Path to directory containing grid files

path

String

File extension of grid files

extension

String

The path parameter can either be fully qualified or relative to the location of the data source file in which it is defined. The path string should not end with a slash character.