Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area Projection

Author

Eric W. Weisstein
January 26, 2011

This notebook downloaded from http://mathworld.wolfram.com/notebooks/MapProjections/LambertAzimuthalEqual-AreaProjection.nb.

For more information, see Eric's MathWorld entry http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LambertAzimuthalEqual-AreaProjection.html.

©2010 Wolfram Research, Inc. except for portions noted otherwise

Figure

Projection

V5

Show[Graphics[ProjectionPlot[Projection[LambertAzimuthal[]],LineType->Line,GridSegments->{100,150}]],AspectRatio->Automatic]//Timing

V6

Graphics[MapProjectionPlot[MapProjection[LambertAzimuthal[]],LineType->Line,GridSegments->{100,150}]]

"LambertAzimuthalEqual-AreaProjection"->,

WorldPlot

<<Miscellaneous`WorldPlot`
<<Graphics`Colors`

WorldPlot[Flatten[{NorthAmerica,SouthAmerica,Africa}],
WorldProjection->LambertAzimuthal,
WorldGridBehind->False,
WorldBorders->Red,WorldGridStyle->GrayLevel[.7]]