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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