“Sphere to Cylinder”: Transverse Aspect - Map Projections: Cartographic Information Systems - page 319

11-2 Special Mapping Equations

Setting up special equations of the mapping “sphere to cylinder”: meta-cylindrical projec-
tions in the transverse aspect . Equidistant mapping (transverse Plate Carree projection),
conformal mapping (transverse Mercator projection), equal area mapping (transverse Lam-
bert cylindrical equal area projection).

11-21 Equidistant Mapping (Transverse Plate Carree Projection),
see Fig. 11.2

x
y

= R A cos B 0 ,

B

(11.4)

Λ 1 = cos B 0

cos B , Λ 2 =1 .

Fig. 11.2. Mapping the sphere to a cylinder: transverse aspect, equidistant mapping, B 0 =0 ◦ , transverse Plate
Carree projection