Behrmann projection

Cylindrical equal-area map projection

The Behrmann projection is a cylindrical equal-area map projection described by Walter Behrmann in 1910.^[1] Cylindrical equal-area projections differ by their standard parallels, which are parallels along which the projection has no distortion. In the case of the Behrmann projection, the standard parallels are 30°N and 30°S. While equal-area, distortion of shape increases in the Behrmann projection according to distance from the standard parallels. The Behrmann projection has the property that half of the Earth's surface is stretched horizontally and the other half is stretched vertically. This projection is not equidistant.

References

^ "Behrmann: Compare Map Projections". map-projections.net. Retrieved 2024-01-19.

External links

Media related to Maps with Behrmann projection at Wikimedia Commons
Table of examples and properties of all common projections, from radicalcartography.net

Map projection

History
List
Portal

By surface

Cylindrical

Mercator-conformal	Gauss–Krüger Transverse Mercator Oblique Mercator
Equal-area	Balthasart Behrmann Gall–Peters Hobo–Dyer Lambert Smyth equal-surface Trystan Edwards
Cassini Central Equirectangular Gall stereographic Gall isographic Miller Space-oblique Mercator Web Mercator

Pseudocylindrical

Equal-area	Collignon Eckert II Eckert IV Eckert VI Equal Earth Goode homolosine Mollweide Sinusoidal Tobler hyperelliptical
Kavrayskiy VII Wagner VI Winkel I and II

Conical

Pseudoconical

Azimuthal
(planar)

General perspective	Gnomonic Orthographic Stereographic
Equidistant Lambert equal-area

Bonne	Sinusoidal Werner
Bottomley	Sinusoidal Werner
Cylindrical	Balthasart Behrmann Gall–Peters Hobo–Dyer Lambert cylindrical equal-area Smyth equal-surface Trystan Edwards
Tobler hyperelliptical	Collignon Mollweide
Albers Briesemeister Eckert II Eckert IV Eckert VI Equal Earth Goode homolosine Hammer Lambert azimuthal equal-area Quadrilateralized spherical cube Strebe 1995