TheAlbers equal-area conic projection, orAlbers projection, is aconic,equal areamap projection that uses two standard parallels. Although scale and shape are not preserved, distortion is minimal between the standard parallels. It was first described by Heinrich Christian Albers (1773-1833) in a German geography and astronomy periodical in 1805.^[1]

The Albers projection is used by some big countries as "official standard projection" for Census and other applications.

Some "official products" also adopted Albers projection, for example most of the maps in theNational Atlas of the United States.^[6]

Snyder^[6] describes generating formulae for the projection, as well as the projection's characteristics. Coordinates from a sphericaldatum can be transformed into Albers equal-area conic projection coordinates with the following formulas, where${\displaystyle R}$ is the radius,${\displaystyle \lambda }$ is the longitude,${\displaystyle {\lambda }_0}$ the reference longitude,${\displaystyle \phi }$ the latitude,${\displaystyle {\phi }_0}$ the reference latitude and${\displaystyle {\phi }_1}$ and${\displaystyle {\phi }_2}$ the standard parallels:

where

If just one of the two standard parallels of the Albers projection is placed on a pole, the result is theLambert equal-area conic projection.^[7]

• List of map projections

Wikimedia Commons has media related toAlbers projection.

• Mathworld's page on the Albers projection
• Table of examples and properties of all common projections, from radicalcartography.net
• An interactive Java Applet to study the metric deformations of the Albers Projection.

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