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UTM projections are the Transverse Mercator Projection with parameters:
•Semi-major axis
•Inverse Flattening
For the UTM projection:
•The Earth is divided into 60 zones
•Each zone is 6° wide in longitude
•Zone 1 Starts at the 180th meridian from Greenwich
•Zones are numbered from the west to the east