Behrmann projection

Short description: Cylindrical equal-area map projection

Behrmann projection of the world The Behrmann cylindrical equal-area projection with Tissot's indicatrices of deformation

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.

## See also

* List of map projections

## References

1. ↑ "Behrmann: Compare Map Projections". https://map-projections.net/single-view/behrmann.

## External links

* Table of examples and properties of all common projections, from radicalcartography.net

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By surface

| Cylindrical|

| Mercator-conformal|

* Gauss–Krüger
* Transverse Mercator
* Oblique Mercator

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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|

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

Conical|

* Albers
* Equidistant
* Lambert conformal

Pseudoconical|

* Bonne
* Bottomley
* Polyconic
* American
* Werner

Azimuthal
(planar)|

| General perspective|

* Gnomonic
* Orthographic
* Stereographic

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* Equidistant
* Lambert equal-area

Pseudoazimuthal|

* Aitoff
* Hammer
* Wiechel
* Winkel tripel

By metric

| Conformal|

* Adams hemisphere-in-a-square
* Gauss–Krüger
* Guyou hemisphere-in-a-square
* Lambert conformal conic
* Mercator
* Peirce quincuncial
* Stereographic
* Transverse Mercator

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Equal-area|

| Bonne|

* Sinusoidal
* Werner

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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

Equidistant in
some aspect|

* Conic
* Equirectangular
* Sinusoidal
* Two-point
* Werner

Gnomonic|

* Gnomonic

Loxodromic|

* Loximuthal
* Mercator

Retroazimuthal
(Mecca or Qibla)|

* Craig
* Hammer
* Littrow

By construction

| Compromise|

* Chamberlin trimetric
* Kavrayskiy VII
* Miller cylindrical
* Natural Earth
* Robinson
* Van der Grinten
* Wagner VI
* Winkel tripel

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Hybrid|

* Goode homolosine
* HEALPix

Perspective|

| Planar|

* Gnomonic
* Orthographic
* Stereographic

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* Central cylindrical

Polyhedral|

* Cahill Butterfly
* Cahill–Keyes M-shape
* Dymaxion
* ISEA
* Quadrilateralized spherical cube
* Waterman butterfly

See also

* Interruption (map projection)
* Latitude
* Longitude
* Tissot's indicatrix
* Map projection of the tri-axial ellipsoid

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