Alden Partridge Colvocoresses

Military Person

1918 – 2007

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Who was Alden Partridge Colvocoresses?

Colonel Alden Partridge Colvocoresses, US Army, developed in 1973–1979 the Space-oblique Mercator projection with John Parr Snyder and John L. Junkins. Colvocoresses was the first to realize that such a projection was needed and mathematically feasible, and in 1974 defined it geometrically as a projection that maps images from Landsat satellites, which he used to develop the first satellite map of the United States.

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Born
1918
Dewey-Humboldt
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Lived in
  • Arizona
Died
Mar 27, 2007
Resting place
Arlington National Cemetery

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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