Space-oblique Mercator projection

Space-oblique Mercator projection.

Space-oblique Mercator projection is a map projection.

History

The space-oblique Mercator projection (SOM) was developed by John P. Snyder, Alden Partridge Colvocoresses and John L. Junkins in 1976. Snyder had an interest in maps, originating back to his childhood and he regularly attended cartography conferences while on vacation. When the United States Geological Survey (USGS) needed to develop a system for reducing the amount of distortion caused when satellite pictures of the ellipsoidal Earth were printed on a flat page, they appealed for help at one such conference. Snyder worked on the problem armed with his newly purchased pocket calculator and devised the mathematical formulas needed to solve the problem. He submitted these to the USGS at no charge, starting off a new career at USGS. His formulas were used to produce maps from Landsat 4 images launched in the summer of 1978.

Projection description

The space-oblique Mercator projection provides continual conformal mapping of the swath sensed by a satellite. Scale is true along the ground track, varying 0.01 percent within the normal sensing range of the satellite. Conformality is correct within a few parts per million for the sensing range. Distortion is essentially constant along lines of constant distance parallel to the ground track. SOM is the only projection presented that takes the rotation of Earth into account.

Equations

The forward equations for the Space Oblique Mercator projection for the sphere are as follows:

{\begin{aligned}{\frac {x}{R}}&=\int _{0}^{\lambda '}{\frac {H-S^{2}}{\sqrt {1+S^{2}}}}d\lambda '-{\frac {S}{\sqrt {1+S^{2}}}}\ln \tan \left({\frac {\pi }{4}}+{\frac {\varphi '}{2}}\right)\\{\frac {y}{R}}&=\left(H+1\right)\int _{0}^{\lambda '}{\frac {S}{\sqrt {1+S^{2}}}}d\lambda '+{\frac {1}{\sqrt {1+S^{2}}}}\ln \tan \left({\frac {\pi }{4}}+{\frac {\varphi '}{2}}\right)\\S&={\tfrac {P_{2}}{P_{1}}}\sin i\cos \lambda '\\H&=1-{\tfrac {P_{2}}{P_{1}}}\cos i\\\tan \lambda '&=\cos i\tan \lambda _{t}+{\frac {\sin i\tan \varphi }{\cos \lambda _{t}}}\\\sin \varphi '&=\cos i\sin \varphi -\sin i\cos \varphi \sin \lambda _{t}\\\lambda _{t}&=\lambda +{\tfrac {P_{2}}{P_{1}}}\lambda '.\\\varphi &={\text{geodetic (or geographic) latitude.}}\\\lambda &={\text{geodetic (or geographic) longitude.}}\\P_{2}&={\text{time required for revolution of satellite.}}\\P_{1}&={\text{length of Earth rotation.}}\\i&={\text{angle of inclination.}}\\R&={\text{radius of Earth.}}\\x,y&={\text{rectangular map coordinates.}}\end{aligned}}

References

John Hessler, Projecting Time: John Parr Snyder and the Development of the Space Oblique Mercator Projection, Library of Congress, 2003
Snyder's 1981 Paper Detailing the Projection's Derivation

Map projection

History
List
Portal

By surface

Cylindrical

Mercator-conformal	Gauss–Krüger Transverse Mercator

Equal-area	Balthasart Behrmann Gall–Peters Hobo–Dyer Lambert Smyth equal-surface Trystan Edwards

Cassini Central Equirectangular Gall stereographic Miller Space-oblique Mercator Web Mercator

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 Hammer Lambert azimuthal equal-area Quadrilateralized spherical cube

Equidistant in
some aspect

Gnomonic

Gnomonic

Loxodromic

Retroazimuthal
(Mecca or Qibla)

Planar	Gnomonic Orthographic Stereographic

Central cylindrical

Polyhedral

See also

Latitude Longitude Tissot's indicatrix

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