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MIN MAX MEAN STDV
-1983.217 2848.723 -4.279 129.323 (meters)
CONTOUR cowbathy.shp DEPTH ENFORCE OFF DATATYPE CONTOUR ITERATIONS 40 ROUGHNESS_PENALTY 0.00000000000 DISCRETE_ERROR_FACTOR 1.00000000000 VERTICAL_STANDARD_ERROR 0.00000000000 TOLERANCES 2.50000000000 100.00000000000 CELL_SIZE 1000.00000000000 MARGIN 20The resultant grid was clipped to the study area.
Cell Size = 1000.000 Data Type: Floating Point
Number of Rows = 2150
Number of Columns = 1465
BOUNDARY STATISTICS
Xmin = -268965.464 Minimum Value = -5313.239
Xmax = 1196034.536 Maximum Value = -200.000
Ymin = 3317024.756 Mean = -3361.470
Ymax = 5467024.756 Standard Deviation = 1143.242
COORDINATE SYSTEM DESCRIPTION
Projection UTM
Zone 10
Datum WGS84
Units METERS
Spheroid WGS84
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