ISO/IEC 18026:2025

This document specifies the Spatial Reference Model (SRM) defining relevant aspects of spatial positioning andrelated information processing. The SRM allows precise and unambiguous specification of geometric propertiessuch as position, direction, orientation, and distance. The SRM addresses the needs of a broad community ofusers, who have a range of accuracy and performance requirements in computationally intensive applications.

Aspects of this document apply to, but are not limited to:

a) mapping, charting, geodesy, and imagery;

b) topography;

c) location-based services;

d) oceanography;

e) meteorology and climatology;

f) interplanetary and planetary sciences;

g) embedded systems; and

h) modelling and simulation.

The SRM specifies an application program interface (API) that supports the representations, conversion, andtransformation of position and orientation information in a variety of forms. To ensure that spatial operations areperformed consistently, the application program interface specifies conversion operations between alternativerepresentations of geometric properties.

This document is not intended to replace the standards and specifications developed by ISO/TC 211, ISO/TC184, the International Astronomical Union (IAU), and the International Association of Geodesy (IAG). It isapplicable to applications whose spatial information requirements overlap two or more of the application areasthat are the scope of the work of ISO/TC 211, ISO/TC 184, the IAU, and the IAG.