In cartography, the Lambert cylindrical equal-area projection, Lambert cylindrical projection, or cylindrical equal-area projection is a cylindrical, equal area map projection.
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History
The invention of this projection is attributed to the Alsatian mathematician Johann Heinrich Lambert in 1772.[1]
The projection is:
where 
is the latitude, 
is the longitude, 
is the central meridian, and 
is the standard latitude[2].
Oblique orientation
View using oblique orientation.
Oblique orientation
See also
References
- ^ Mulcahy, Karen. "Cylindrical Projections". City University of New York. http://www.geo.hunter.cuny.edu/mp/cylind.html. Retrieved on 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.
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