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  print "X: $x\tY: $y\tZ: $z\n";

  my ($lat, $lon, $hae)=$obj->geodetic($x, $y, $z); #X (meters), Y (meters), Z (meters)
  print "Lat: $lat  \tLon: $lon \tHAE $hae\n";


=head1 DESCRIPTION

Geo::ECEF provides two methods ecef and geodetic.  The ecef method calculates the X,Y and Z coordinates in the ECEF (earth centered earth fixed) coordinate system from latitude, longitude and height above the ellipsoid.  The geodetic method calculate...

The formulas were found at http://www.u-blox.ch/ and http://waas.stanford.edu/~wwu/maast/maastWWW1_0.zip.

This code is an object Perl rewrite of a similar package by Morten Sickel, Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority

=head1 CONSTRUCTOR

=head2 new

The new() constructor initializes the ellipsoid method.

  my $obj=Geo::ECEF->new("WGS84"); #WGS84 is the default