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Behrmann Cylindrical Equal Area (30 degrees)

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    • Behrmann Cylindrical Equal Area Projection (30 degrees)

    Usage:*

            The fourth of seven projections proposed by Johann Hinrich Lambert, and occasionally given his name (Lambert's Cylindrical Equal-Area), is the Cylindrical Equal-Area. Walther Behrman (1910) of Germany developed a variation of the Cylindrical Equal-Area aptly named the Behrman Cylindrical Equal-Area projection. The Behrman Cylindrical Equal-Area projection is a modified version of the Cylindrical Equal-Area, where the projection is compressed from east to west and expanded by the same ratio from north to south, thereby moving the parrallel of no distortion from the Equator to latitude 30 degrees.

    * Usage information source:

    Snyder, John P. Map Projections - A Working Manual Paper U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1395. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1987.

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