Lambert cylindrical equal-area projection

In cartography, the Lambert cylindrical equal-area projection, or Lambert cylindrical projection, is a cylindrical, equal area map projection. It is a member of the cylindrical equal-area projection family.

Contents

1 History
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

History

The invention of this projection is attributed to the Alsatian mathematician Johann Heinrich Lambert in 1772.^[1]

The projection is:

$x = \lambda - \lambda_0 \!$

$y = \sin \phi \!$

where $\phi\,$ is the latitude, $\lambda\,$ is the longitude and $\lambda_0\,$ is the central meridian^[2].

See also

References

^ Mulcahy, Karen. "Cylindrical Projections". City University of New York. http://www.geo.hunter.cuny.edu/mp/cylind.html. Retrieved 2007-03-30.
^ Map Projections – A Working Manual, USGS Professional Paper 1395, John P. Snyder, 1987, pp. 76–85

External links

Table of examples and properties of all common projections, from radicalcartography.net
An interactive Java Applet to study the metric deformations of the Lambert Cylindrical Equal-Area Projection.