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Which of the following projection types is adopted in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)?
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- Spherical
- Conical
- Planar
- Cylindrical
Correct Option: D
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.