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GEOCENTRIC DATUM OF MALAYSIA 2000 (GDM2000) AND CCS INFRASTRUCTURE Dr Samad bin Hj Abu Seksyen Geodesi Bahagian Pemetaan, Jabatan Ukur dan Pemetaan Malaysia Seminar dan Bengkel Coordinated Cadastral System (CCS) Melaka 26 – 27 Julai 2005 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Historically, datums have been established in many regions around the world since the 19th Century using conventional surveying techniques and procedures. Most of them were confined to small areas of the globe, fit to limited areas to satisfy national mapping requirements. They are therefore regional in nature and generally are not aligned with global geocentric coordinates frames. This is the case in Malaysia where it has two conventional geodetic datum namely the Malayan Revised Triangulation (MRT) for Peninsular Malaysia (West Malaysia) and the Borneo Triangulation 1968 (BT68) for Sabah and Sarawak (East Malaysia). 1.2 Cadastral surveying aims at defining and guaranteeing legal property boundaries, and determining coordinates of all measured points to give information on the size and nature of land use. The demarcation and delineation of the boundaries which forms part of a cadastral survey has been carried out by connection to the main triangulation through standard traverse. 1.4 However, with the advent of new technologies such as Global Positioning System (GPS) and unified GIS applications over large areas, the existing datums of MRT and BT68 have become obsolete in that they cannot match the accuracy needed for new applications. 1.5 The importance of the geocentric datum was further realised considering that satellite positioning systems would have widespread use in this millennium and the positions referenced to the existing datum would not be compatible with satellite derived positions. The adoption of a geocentric datum would allow for a single standard for the acquisition, storage and the use of cadastral database thus ensuring its homogeneity. This would a