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Computing in Geographic Information Systems
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Computing in Geographic Information Systems

by Narayan Panigrahi
July 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
303 pages
8h 34m
English
CRC Press
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are listed below.
1. Equal area or homolographic projection: This projection pre-
serves the area measurement on the map. In this projection system
the graticules are prepared in such a way that every quadrilateral
on it may appear proportionally equal in area to the corresponding
spherical quadrilateral. These map projections are useful for appli-
cations involving estimation of land use, land cover measurement,
land partitioning, city and town planning, area-wise resource allo-
cation, cadastral applications etc.
2. Orthomorphic projection: These types of projections preserve
the shape of the mapping surface. They are also known as confor-
mal projections. It is relatively difficult to preserve the shap
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ISBN: 9781482223149