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diff --git a/docs/source/usage/apps/cct.rst b/docs/source/usage/apps/cct.rst index e6f94526..014e7732 100644 --- a/docs/source/usage/apps/cct.rst +++ b/docs/source/usage/apps/cct.rst @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ program, performs transformation coordinate systems on a set of input points. The coordinate system transformation can include translation between projected and geographic coordinates as well as the application of datum shifts. -cct is an acromyn meaning *Coordinate Conversion and Transformation*. +cct is an acronym meaning *Coordinate Conversion and Transformation*. The acronym refers to definitions given in the OGC 08-015r2/ISO-19111 standard "Geographical Information -- Spatial Referencing by Coordinates", @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ professor of Geodesy at the University of Copenhagen, mentor and advisor for a generation of Danish geodesists, colleague and collaborator for two generations of global geodesists, Secretary General for the International Association of Geodesy, IAG (1995--2007), fellow of the -Amercan Geophysical Union (1991), recipient of the IAG Levallois Medal +American Geophysical Union (1991), recipient of the IAG Levallois Medal (2007), the European Geosciences Union Vening Meinesz Medal (2008), and of numerous other honours. @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ the development of geodesy -- both through his scientific contributions, comprising more than 250 publications, and by his mentoring and teaching of the next generations of geodesists. -As Christian was an avid Fortran programmer, and a keen Unix connoiseur, +As Christian was an avid Fortran programmer, and a keen Unix connoisseur, he would have enjoyed to know that his initials would be used to name a modest Unix style transformation filter, hinting at the tireless aspect of his personality, which was certainly one of the reasons he accomplished |