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NAME
PDL::Transform::Cartography - Useful cartographic projections
SYNOPSIS
# make a Mercator map of Earth
use PDL::Transform::Cartography;
$x = earth_coast();
$x = graticule(10,2)->glue(1,$x);
$t = t_mercator;
$w = pgwin(xs);
$w->lines($t->apply($x)->clean_lines());
DESCRIPTION
PDL::Transform::Cartography includes a variety of useful cartographic and observing
projections (mappings of the surface of a sphere), including reprojected observer
coordinates. See PDL::Transform for more information about image transforms in general.
Cartographic transformations are used for projecting not just terrestrial maps, but also
any nearly spherical surface including the Sun, the Celestial sphere, various moons and
planets, distant stars, etc. They also are useful for interpreting scientific images,
which are themselves generally projections of a sphere onto a flat focal plane (e.g. the
"t_gnomonic" projection).
Unless otherwise noted, all the transformations in this file convert from (theta,phi)
coordinates on the unit sphere (e.g. (lon,lat) on a planet or (RA,dec) on the celestial
sphere) into some sort of projected coordinates, and have inverse transformations that
convert back to (theta,phi). This is equivalent to working from the equidistant
cylindrical (or "plate carree") projection, if you are a cartography wonk.
The projected coordinates are generally in units of body radii (radians), so that
multiplying the output by the scale of the map yields physical units that are correct
wherever the scale is correct for that projection. For example, areas should be correct
everywhere in the authalic projections; and linear scales are correct along meridians in
the equidistant projections and along the standard parallels in all the projections.
The transformations that are authalic (equal-area), conformal (equal-angle), azimuthal
(circularly symmetric), or perspective (true perspective on a focal plane from some
viewpoint) are marked. The first two categories are mutually exclusive for all but the
"unit sphere" 3-D projection.
Extra dimensions tacked on to each point to be transformed are, in general, ignored. That
is so that you can add on an extra index to keep track of pen color. For example,
"earth_coast" returns a 3x<n> ndarray containing (lon, lat, pen) at each list location.
Transforming the vector list retains the pen value as the first index after the
dimensional directions.
GENERAL NOTES ON CARTOGRAPHY
Unless otherwise noted, the transformations and miscellaneous information in this section
are taken from Snyder & Voxland 1989: "An Album of Map Projections", US Geological Survey
Professional Paper 1453, US Printing Office (Denver); and from Snyder 1987: "Map
Projections - A Working Manual", US Geological Survey Professional Paper 1395, US Printing
Office (Denver, USA). You can obtain your own copy of both by contacting the U.S.
Geological Survey, Federal Center, Box 25425, Denver, CO 80225 USA.
The mathematics of cartography have a long history, and the details are far trickier than
the broad overview. For terrestrial (and, in general, planetary) cartography, the best
reference datum is not a sphere but an oblate ellipsoid due to centrifugal force from the
planet's rotation. Furthermore, because all rocky planets, including Earth, have randomly
placed mass concentrations that affect the gravitational field, the reference
gravitational isosurface (sea level on Earth) is even more complex than an ellipsoid and,
in general, different ellipsoids have been used for different locations at the same time
and for the same location at different times.
The transformations in this package use a spherical datum and hence include global
distortion at about the 0.5% level for terrestrial maps (Earth's oblateness is ~1/300).
This is roughly equal to the dimensional precision of physical maps printed on paper (due
to stretching and warping of the paper) but is significant at larger scales (e.g. for
regional maps). If you need more precision than that, you will want to implement and use
the ellipsoidal transformations from Snyder 1987 or another reference work on geodesy. A
good name for that package would be "...::Cartography::Geodetic".
GENERAL NOTES ON PERSPECTIVE AND SCIENTIFIC IMAGES
Cartographic transformations are useful for interpretation of scientific images, as all
cameras produce projections of the celestial sphere onto the focal plane of the camera. A
simple (single-element) optical system with a planar focal plane generates gnomonic images
-- that is to say, gnomonic projections of a portion of the celestial sphere near the
paraxial direction. This is the projection that most consumer grade cameras produce.
Magnification in an optical system changes the angle of incidence of the rays on the focal
plane for a given angle of incidence at the aperture. For example, a 10x telescope with a
2 degree field of view exhibits the same gnomonic distortion as a simple optical system
with a 20 degree field of view. Wide-angle optics typically have magnification less than
1 ('fisheye lenses'), reducing the gnomonic distortion considerably but introducing
"equidistant azimuthal" distortion -- there's no such thing as a free lunch!
Because many solar-system objects are spherical, PDL::Transform::Cartography includes
perspective projections for producing maps of spherical bodies from perspective views.
Those projections are "t_vertical" and "t_perspective". They map between (lat,lon) on the
spherical body and planar projected coordinates at the viewpoint. "t_vertical" is the
vertical perspective projection given by Snyder, but "t_perspective" is a fully general
perspective projection that also handles magnification correction.
TRANSVERSE & OBLIQUE PROJECTIONS; STANDARD OPTIONS
Oblique projections rotate the sphere (and graticule) to an arbitrary angle before
generating the projection; transverse projections rotate the sphere exactly 90 degrees
before generating the projection.
Most of the projections accept the following standard options, useful for making
transverse and oblique projection maps.
o, origin, Origin [default (0,0,0)]
The origin of the oblique map coordinate system, in (old-theta, old-phi) coordinates.
r, roll, Roll [default 0.0]
The roll angle of the sphere about the origin, measured CW from (N = up) for reasonable
values of phi and CW from (S = up) for unreasonable values of phi. This is equivalent
to observer roll angle CCW from the same direction.
u, unit, Unit [default 'degree']
This is the name of the angular unit to use in the lon/lat coordinate system.
b, B
The "B" angle of the body -- used for extraterrestrial maps. Setting this parameter is
exactly equivalent to setting the phi component of the origin, and in fact overrides
it.
l,L
The longitude of the central meridian as observed -- used for extraterrestrial maps.
Setting this parameter is exactly equivalent to setting the theta component of the
origin, and in fact overrides it.
p,P
The "P" (or position) angle of the body -- used for extraterrestrial maps. This
parameter is a synonym for the roll angle, above.
bad, Bad, missing, Missing [default nan]
This is the value that missing points get. Mainly useful for the inverse transforms.
(This should work fine if set to BAD, if you have bad-value support compiled in). The
default nan is asin(1.2), calculated at load time.
EXAMPLES
Draw a Mercator map of the world on-screen:
$w = pgwin(xs);
$w->lines(earth_coast->apply(t_mercator)->clean_lines);
Here, "earth_coast()" returns a 3xn ndarray containing (lon, lat, pen) values for the
included world coastal outline; "t_mercator" converts the values to projected Mercator
coordinates, and "clean_lines" breaks lines that cross the 180th meridian.
Draw a Mercator map of the world, with lon/lat at 10 degree intervals:
$w = pgwin(xs)
$x = earth_coast()->glue(1,graticule(10,1));
$w->lines($x->apply(t_mercator)->clean_lines);
This works just the same as the first example, except that a map graticule has been
applied with interline spacing of 10 degrees lon/lat and inter-vertex spacing of 1 degree
(so that each meridian contains 181 points, and each parallel contains 361 points).
NOTES
Currently angular conversions are rather simpleminded. A list of common conversions is
present in the main constructor, which inserts a conversion constant to radians into the
{params} field of the new transform. Something like Math::Convert::Units should be used
instead to generate the conversion constant.
A cleaner higher-level interface is probably needed (see the examples); for example,
earth_coast could return a graticule if asked, instead of needing one to be glued on.
The class structure is somewhat messy because of the varying needs of the different
transformations. PDL::Transform::Cartography is a base class that interprets the origin
options and sets up the basic machinery of the Transform. The conic projections have
their own subclass, PDL::Transform::Conic, that interprets the standard parallels. Since
the cylindrical and azimuthal projections are pretty simple, they are not subclassed.
The perl 5.6.1 compiler is quite slow at adding new classes to the structure, so it does
not makes sense to subclass new transformations merely for the sake of pedantry.
AUTHOR
Copyright 2002, Craig DeForest (deforest@boulder.swri.edu). This module may be modified
and distributed under the same terms as PDL itself. The module comes with NO WARRANTY.
The included digital world map is derived from the 1987 CIA World Map, translated to ASCII
in 1988 by Joe Dellinger (geojoe@freeusp.org) and simplified in 1995 by Kirk Johnson
(tuna@indra.com) for the program XEarth. The map comes with NO WARRANTY. An ASCII
version of the map, and a sample PDL function to read it, may be found in the Demos
subdirectory of the PDL source distribution.
FUNCTIONS
The module exports both transform constructors ('t_<foo>') and some auxiliary functions
(no leading 't_').
graticule
$lonlatp = graticule(<grid-spacing>,<line-segment-size>);
$lonlatp = graticule(<grid-spacing>,<line-segment-size>,1);
(Cartography) PDL constructor - generate a lat/lon grid.
Returns a grid of meridians and parallels as a list of vectors suitable for sending to
PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT::Window::lines for plotting. The grid is in degrees in (theta, phi)
coordinates -- this is (E lon, N lat) for terrestrial grids or (RA, dec) for celestial
ones. You must then transform the graticule in the same way that you transform the map.
You can attach the graticule to a vector map using the syntax:
$out = graticule(10,2)->glue(1,$map);
In array context you get back a 2-element list containing an ndarray of the (theta,phi)
pairs and an ndarray of the pen values (1 or 0) suitable for calling
PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT::Window::lines. In scalar context the two elements are combined
into a single ndarray.
The pen values associated with the graticule are negative, which will cause
PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT::Window::lines to plot them as hairlines.
If a third argument is given, it is a hash of options, which can be:
nan - if true, use two columns instead of three, and separate lines with a 'nan' break
lonpos - if true, all reported longitudes are positive (0 to 360) instead of (-180 to
180).
dup - if true, the meridian at the far boundary is duplicated.
earth_coast
$x = earth_coast()
(Cartography) PDL constructor - coastline map of Earth
Returns a vector coastline map based on the 1987 CIA World Coastline database (see author
information). The vector coastline data are in plate carree format so they can be
converted to other projections via the apply method and cartographic transforms, and are
suitable for plotting with the lines method in the PGPLOT output library: the first
dimension is (X,Y,pen) with breaks having a pen value of 0 and hairlines having negative
pen values. The second dimension broadcasts over all the points in the data set.
The vector map includes lines that pass through the antipodean meridian, so if you want to
plot it without reprojecting, you should run it through "clean_lines" first:
$w = pgwin();
$w->lines(earth_coast->clean_lines); # plot plate carree map of world
$w->lines(earth_coast->apply(t_gnomonic))# plot gnomonic map of world
"earth_coast" is just a quick-and-dirty way of loading the file "earth_coast.vec.fits"
that is part of the normal installation tree.
earth_image
$rgb = earth_image()
(Cartography) PDL constructor - RGB pixel map of Earth
Returns an RGB image of Earth based on data from the MODIS instrument on the NASA
EOS/Terra satellite. (You can get a full-resolution image from
<http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/>). The image is a plate carree
map, so you can convert it to other projections via the map method and cartographic
transforms.
This is just a quick-and-dirty way of loading the earth-image files that are distributed
along with PDL.
earth_shape
$fits_shape = earth_shape()
(Cartography) PDL constructor - height map of Earth
Returns a height map of Earth based on data from the General Bathymetric Chart of the
Oceans (GEBCO) produced by the British Oceanographic Data Centre. (You can get a full-
resolution image from <http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=73934>). The image is a
plate carree map, so you can convert it to other projections via the map method and
cartographic transforms. The data is from 8-bit grayscale (so only 256 levels), but is
returned in a similar format to "earth_image". The range represents a span of 6400m, so
Everest and the Marianas Trench are not accurately represented.
To turn this into a "float", ("lonlatradius,x,y") with "x" and "y" in radians, and the
radius as a "float" as a proportion of the Earth's mean radius, use "t_raster2float". The
Earth is treated here as a perfect sphere with sea level at radius 6,371km.
Value Hex value Float From centre in km Float as radius
Base 00 0.0 6370.69873km 0.99995
Sea level 0C 0.04705 6371km 1.0
Highest FF 1.0 6377.09863km 1.00096
Code:
$shape = earth_shape();
$floats = t_raster2float()->apply($shape->mv(2,0));
$lonlatradius = $floats->slice('0:2'); # r g b all same
$lonlatradius->slice('(2)') *= float((6377.09863 - 6370.69873) / 6371);
$lonlatradius->slice('(2)') += float(6370.69873 / 6371);
clean_lines
$x = clean_lines(t_mercator->apply(scalar(earth_coast())));
$x = clean_lines($line_pen, [threshold]);
$x = $lines->clean_lines;
(Cartography) PDL method - remove projection irregularities
"clean_lines" massages vector data to remove jumps due to singularities in the transform.
In the first (scalar) form, $line_pen contains both (X,Y) points and pen values suitable
to be fed to lines: in the second (list) form, $lines contains the (X,Y) points and $pen
contains the pen values.
"clean_lines" assumes that all the outline polylines are local -- that is to say, there
are no large jumps. Any jumps larger than a threshold size are broken by setting the
appropriate pen values to 0.
The "threshold" parameter sets the relative size of the largest jump, relative to the map
range (as determined by a min/max operation). The default size is 0.1.
NOTES
This almost never catches stuff near the apex of cylindrical maps, because the anomalous
vectors get arbitrarily small. This could be improved somewhat by looking at individual
runs of the pen and using a relative length scale that is calibrated to the rest of each
run. it is probably not worth the computational overhead.
t_raster2float
$t = t_raster2float();
(Cartography) Convert a raster (3,x,y) to "float" (lonlatrgb,x,y)
Assumes "bytes" input, and radians and "float" output, with the first 2 coordinates
suitable for use as plate carree.
t_raster2fits
$t = t_raster2fits();
(Cartography) Convert a raster (3,x,y) to FITS plate carree (x,y,3)
Adds suitable "hdr". Assumes degrees. Used by "earth_image".
t_unit_sphere
$t = t_unit_sphere(<options>);
(Cartography) 3-D globe projection (conformal; authalic)
This is similar to the inverse of t_spherical, but the inverse transform projects 3-D
coordinates onto the unit sphere, yielding only a 2-D (lon/lat) output. Similarly, the
forward transform deprojects 2-D (lon/lat) coordinates onto the surface of a unit sphere.
The cartesian system has its Z axis pointing through the pole of the (lon,lat) system, and
its X axis pointing through the equator at the prime meridian.
Unit sphere mapping is unusual in that it is both conformal and authalic. That is
possible because it properly embeds the sphere in 3-space, as a notional globe.
This is handy as an intermediate step in lots of transforms, as Cartesian 3-space is
cleaner to work with than spherical 2-space.
Higher dimensional indices are preserved, so that "rider" indices (such as pen value) are
propagated.
There is no oblique transform for t_unit_sphere, largely because it's so easy to rotate
the output using t_linear once it's out into Cartesian space. In fact, the other
projections implement oblique transforms by wrapping t_linear with "t_unit_sphere".
OPTIONS:
radius, Radius (default 1.0)
The radius of the sphere, for the inverse transform. (Radius is ignored in the forward
transform). Defaults to 1.0 so that the resulting Cartesian coordinates are in units
of "body radii".
t_rot_sphere
$t = t_rot_sphere({origin=>[<theta>,<phi>],roll=>[<roll>]});
(Cartography) Generate oblique projections
You feed in the origin in (theta,phi) and a roll angle, and you get back out (theta',
phi') coordinates. This is useful for making oblique or transverse projections: just
compose t_rot_sphere with your favorite projection and you get an oblique one.
Most of the projections automagically compose themselves with t_rot_sphere if you feed in
an origin or roll angle.
t_rot_sphere converts the base plate carree projection (straight lon, straight lat) to a
Cassini projection.
OPTIONS
STANDARD POSITIONAL OPTIONS
t_orthographic
$t = t_orthographic(<options>);
(Cartography) Ortho. projection (azimuthal; perspective)
This is a perspective view as seen from infinite distance. You can specify the sub-viewer
point in (lon,lat) coordinates, and a rotation angle of the map CW from (north=up). This
is equivalent to specify viewer roll angle CCW from (north=up).
t_orthographic is a convenience interface to t_unit_sphere -- it is implemented as a
composition of a t_unit_sphere call, a rotation, and a slice.
[*] In the default case where the near hemisphere is mapped, the inverse exists. There is
no single inverse for the whole-sphere case, so the inverse transform superimposes
everything on a single hemisphere. If you want an invertible 3-D transform, you want
"t_unit_sphere".
OPTIONS
STANDARD POSITIONAL OPTIONS
m, mask, Mask, h, hemisphere, Hemisphere [default 'near']
The hemisphere to keep in the projection (see PDL::Transform::Cartography).
NOTES
Alone of the various projections, this one does not use "t_rot_sphere" to handle the
standard options, because the cartesian coordinates of the rotated sphere are already
correctly projected -- t_rot_sphere would put them back into (theta', phi') coordinates.
t_carree
$t = t_carree(<options>);
(Cartography) Plate Carree projection (cylindrical; equidistant)
This is the simple Plate Carree projection -- also called a "lat/lon plot". The
horizontal axis is theta; the vertical axis is phi. This is a no-op if the angular unit
is radians; it is a simple scale otherwise.
OPTIONS
STANDARD POSITIONAL OPTIONS
s, std, standard, Standard (default 0)
The standard parallel where the transformation is conformal. Conformality is achieved
by shrinking of the horizontal scale to match the vertical scale (which is correct
everywhere).
t_mercator
$t = t_mercator(<options>);
(Cartography) Mercator projection (cylindrical; conformal)
This is perhaps the most famous of all map projections: meridians are mapped to parallel
vertical lines and parallels are unevenly spaced horizontal lines. The poles are shifted
to +/- infinity. The output values are in units of globe-radii for easy conversion to
kilometers; hence the horizontal extent is -pi to pi.
You can get oblique Mercator projections by specifying the "origin" or "roll" options;
this is implemented via "t_rot_sphere".
OPTIONS
STANDARD POSITIONAL OPTIONS
c, clip, Clip (default 75 [degrees])
The north/south clipping boundary of the transformation. Because the poles are
displaced to infinity, many applications require a clipping boundary. The value is in
whatever angular unit you set with the standard 'units' option. The default roughly
matches interesting landforms on Earth. For no clipping at all, set b=>0. For
asymmetric clipping, use a 2-element list ref or ndarray.
s, std, Standard (default 0)
This is the parallel at which the map has correct scale. The scale is also correct at
the parallel of opposite sign.
t_utm
$t = t_utm(<zone>,<options>);
(Cartography) Universal Transverse Mercator projection (cylindrical)
This is the internationally used UTM projection, with 2 subzones (North/South). The UTM
zones are parametrized individually, so if you want a Zone 30 map you should use
"t_utm(30)". By default you get the northern subzone, so that locations in the southern
hemisphere get negative Y coordinates. If you select the southern subzone (with the
"subzone=>-1" option), you get offset southern UTM coordinates.
The 20-subzone military system is not yet supported. If/when it is implemented, you will
be able to enter "subzone=>[a-t]" to select a N/S subzone.
Note that UTM is really a family of transverse Mercator projections with different central
meridia. Each zone properly extends for six degrees of longitude on either side of its
appropriate central meridian, with Zone 1 being centered at -177 degrees longitude (177
west). Properly speaking, the zones only extend from 80 degrees south to 84 degrees
north; but this implementation lets you go all the way to 90 degrees. The default UTM
coordinates are meters. The origin for each zone is on the equator, at an easting of
-500,000 meters.
The default output units are meters, assuming that you are wanting a map of the Earth.
This will break for bodies other than Earth (which have different radii and hence
different conversions between lat/lon angle and meters).
The standard UTM projection has a slight reduction in scale at the prime meridian of each
zone: the transverse Mercator projection's standard "parallels" are 180km e/w of the
central meridian. However, many Europeans prefer the "Gauss-Kruger" system, which is
virtually identical to UTM but with a normal tangent Mercator (standard parallel on the
prime meridian). To get this behavior, set "gk=>1".
Like the rest of the PDL::Transform::Cartography package, t_utm uses a spherical datum
rather than the "official" ellipsoidal datums for the UTM system.
This implementation was derived from the rather nice description by Denis J. Dean, located
on the web at:
http://www.cnr.colostate.edu/class_info/nr502/lg3/datums_coordinates/utm.html
OPTIONS
STANDARD OPTIONS
(No positional options -- Origin and Roll are ignored)
ou, ounit, OutputUnit (default 'meters')
(This is likely to become a standard option in a future release) The unit of the output
map. By default, this is 'meters' for UTM, but you may specify 'deg' or 'km' or even
(heaven help us) 'miles' if you prefer.
sz, subzone, SubZone (default 1)
Set this to -1 for the southern hemisphere subzone. Ultimately you should be able to
set it to a letter to get the corresponding military subzone, but that's too much
effort for now.
gk, gausskruger (default 0)
Set this to 1 to get the (European-style) tangent-plane Mercator with standard parallel
on the prime meridian. The default of 0 places the standard parallels 180km east/west
of the prime meridian, yielding better average scale across the zone. Setting gk=>1
makes the scale exactly 1.0 at the central meridian, and >1.0 everywhere else on the
projection. The difference in scale is about 0.3%.
t_sin_lat
$t = t_sin_lat(<options>);
(Cartography) Cyl. equal-area projection (cyl.; authalic)
This projection is commonly used in solar Carrington plots; but not much for terrestrial
mapping.
OPTIONS
STANDARD POSITIONAL OPTIONS
s,std, Standard (default 0)
This is the parallel at which the map is conformal. It is also conformal at the
parallel of opposite sign. The conformality is achieved by matched vertical stretching
and horizontal squishing (to achieve constant area).
t_sinusoidal
$t = t_sinusoidal(<options>);
(Cartography) Sinusoidal projection (authalic)
Sinusoidal projection preserves the latitude scale but scales longitude according to
sin(lat); in this respect it is the companion to "t_sin_lat", which is also authalic but
preserves the longitude scale instead.
OPTIONS
STANDARD POSITIONAL OPTIONS
t_conic
$t = t_conic(<options>)
(Cartography) Simple conic projection (conic; equidistant)
This is the simplest conic projection, with parallels mapped to equidistant concentric
circles. It is neither authalic nor conformal. This transformation is also referred to
as the "Modified Transverse Mercator" projection in several maps of Alaska published by
the USGS; and the American State of New Mexico re-invented the projection in 1936 for an
official map of that State.
OPTIONS
STANDARD POSITIONAL OPTIONS
s, std, Standard (default 29.5, 45.5)
The locations of the standard parallel(s) (where the cone intersects the surface of the
sphere). If you specify only one then the other is taken to be the nearest pole. If
you specify both of them to be one pole then you get an equidistant azimuthal map. If
you specify both of them to be opposite and equidistant from the equator you get a
Plate Carree projection.
t_albers
$t = t_albers(<options>)
(Cartography) Albers conic projection (conic; authalic)
This is the standard projection used by the US Geological Survey for sectionals of the 50
contiguous United States of America.
The projection reduces to the Lambert equal-area conic (infrequently used and not to be
confused with the Lambert conformal conic, "t_lambert"!) if the pole is used as one of
the two standard parallels.
Notionally, this is a conic projection onto a cone that intersects the sphere at the two
standard parallels; it works best when the two parallels straddle the region of interest.
OPTIONS
STANDARD POSITIONAL OPTIONS
s, std, standard, Standard (default (29.5,45.5))
The locations of the standard parallel(s). If you specify only one then the other is
taken to be the nearest pole and a Lambert Equal-Area Conic map results. If you
specify both standard parallels to be the same pole, then the projection reduces to the
Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area map as aq special case. (Note that "t_lambert" is
Lambert's Conformal Conic, the most commonly used of Lambert's projections.)
The default values for the standard parallels are those chosen by Adams for maps of the
lower 48 US states: (29.5,45.5). The USGS recommends (55,65) for maps of Alaska and
(8,18) for maps of Hawaii -- these latter are chosen to also include the Canal Zone and
Philippine Islands farther south, which is why both of those parallels are south of the
Hawaiian islands.
The transformation reduces to the cylindrical equal-area (sin-lat) transformation in
the case where the standard parallels are opposite and equidistant from the equator,
and in fact this is implemented by a call to t_sin_lat.
t_lambert
$t = t_lambert(<options>);
(Cartography) Lambert conic projection (conic; conformal)
Lambert conformal conic projection is widely used in aeronautical charts and state base
maps published by the USA's FAA and USGS. It's especially useful for mid-latitude charts.
In particular, straight lines approximate (but are not exactly) great circle routes of up
to ~2 radians.
The default standard parallels are 33 and 45 to match the USGS state 1:500,000 base maps
of the United States. At scales of 1:500,000 and larger, discrepancies between the
spherical and ellipsoidal projections become important; use care with this projection on
spheres.
OPTIONS
STANDARD POSITIONAL OPTIONS
s, std, standard, Standard (default (33,45))
The locations of the standard parallel(s) for the conic projection. The transform
reduces to the Mercator projection in the case where the standard parallels are
opposite and equidistant from the equator, and in fact this is implemented by a call to
t_mercator.
c, clip, Clip (default [-75,75])
Because the transform is conformal, the distant pole is displaced to infinity. Many
applications require a clipping boundary. The value is in whatever angular unit you
set with the standard 'unit' option. For consistency with "t_mercator", clipping works
the same way even though in most cases only one pole needs it. Set this to 0 for no
clipping at all.
t_stereographic
$t = t_stereographic(<options>);
(Cartography) Stereographic projection (az.; conf.; persp.)
The stereographic projection is a true perspective (planar) projection from a point on the
spherical surface opposite the origin of the map.
OPTIONS
STANDARD POSITIONAL OPTIONS
c, clip, Clip (default 120)
This is the angular distance from the center to the edge of the projected map. The
default 120 degrees gives you most of the opposite hemisphere but avoids the hugely
distorted part near the antipodes.
t_gnomonic
$t = t_gnomonic(<options>);
(Cartography) Gnomonic (focal-plane) projection (az.; persp.)
The gnomonic projection projects a hemisphere onto a tangent plane. It is useful in
cartography for the property that straight lines are great circles; and it is useful in
scientific imaging because it is the projection generated by a simple optical system with
a flat focal plane.
OPTIONS
STANDARD POSITIONAL OPTIONS
c, clip, Clip (default 75)
This is the angular distance from the center to the edge of the projected map. The
default 75 degrees gives you most of the hemisphere but avoids the hugely distorted
part near the horizon.
t_az_eqd
$t = t_az_eqd(<options>);
(Cartography) Azimuthal equidistant projection (az.; equi.)
Basic azimuthal projection preserving length along radial lines from the origin
(meridians, in the original polar aspect). Hence, both azimuth and distance are correct
for journeys beginning at the origin.
Applied to the celestial sphere, this is the projection made by fisheye lenses; it is also
the projection into which "t_vertical" puts perspective views.
The projected plane scale is normally taken to be planetary radii; this is useful for
cartographers but not so useful for scientific observers. Setting the 't=>1' option
causes the output scale to shift to camera angular coordinates (the angular unit is
determined by the standard 'Units' option; default is degrees).
OPTIONS
STANDARD POSITIONAL OPTIONS
c, clip, Clip (default 180 degrees)
The largest angle relative to the origin. Default is the whole sphere.
t_az_eqa
$t = t_az_eqa(<options>);
(Cartography) Azimuthal equal-area projection (az.; auth.)
OPTIONS
STANDARD POSITIONAL OPTIONS
c, clip, Clip (default 180 degrees)
The largest angle relative to the origin. Default is the whole sphere.
t_aitoff
"t_aitoff" in an alias for "t_hammer"
t_hammer
(Cartography) Hammer/Aitoff elliptical projection (az.; auth.)
The Hammer/Aitoff projection is often used to display the Celestial sphere. It is
mathematically related to the Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area projection ("t_az_eqa"), and
maps the sphere to an ellipse of unit eccentricity, with vertical radius sqrt(2) and
horizontal radius of 2 sqrt(2).
OPTIONS
STANDARD POSITIONAL OPTIONS
t_zenithal
Vertical projections are also called "zenithal", and "t_zenithal" is an alias for
"t_vertical".
t_vertical
$t = t_vertical(<options>);
(Cartography) Vertical perspective projection (az.; persp.)
Vertical perspective projection is a generalization of gnomonic and stereographic
projection, and a special case of perspective projection. It is a projection from the
sphere onto a tangent plane from a point at the camera location.
OPTIONS
STANDARD POSITIONAL OPTIONS
m, mask, Mask, h, hemisphere, Hemisphere [default 'near']
The hemisphere to keep in the projection (see PDL::Transform::Cartography).
r0, R0, radius, d, dist, distance [default 2.0]
The altitude of the focal plane above the center of the sphere. The default places the
point of view one radius above the surface.
t, telescope, Telescope, cam, Camera (default '')
If this is set, then the central scale is in telescope or camera angular units rather
than in planetary radii. The angular units are parsed as with the normal 'u' option
for the lon/lat specification. If you specify a non-string value (such as 1) then you
get telescope-frame radians, suitable for working on with other transformations.
f, fish, fisheye (default '')
If this is set then the output is in azimuthal equidistant coordinates instead of in
tangent-plane coordinates. This is a convenience function for '(t_az_eqd) x
!(t_gnomonic) x (t_vertical)'.
t_perspective
$t = t_perspective(<options>);
(Cartography) Arbitrary perspective projection
Perspective projection onto a focal plane from an arbitrary location within or without the
sphere, with an arbitrary central look direction, and with correction for magnification
within the optical system.
In the forward direction, t_perspective generates perspective views of a sphere given
(lon/lat) mapping or vector information. In the reverse direction, t_perspective produces
(lon/lat) maps from aerial or distant photographs of spherical objects.
Viewpoints outside the sphere treat the sphere as opaque by default, though you can use
the 'm' option to specify either the near or far surface (relative to the origin).
Viewpoints below the surface treat the sphere as transparent and undergo a mirror reversal
for consistency with projections that are special cases of the perspective projection
(e.g. t_gnomonic for r0=0 or t_stereographic for r0=-1).
Magnification correction handles the extra edge distortion due to higher angles between
the focal plane and focused rays within the optical system of your camera. If you do not
happen to know the magnification of your camera, a simple rule of thumb is that the
magnification of a reflective telescope is roughly its focal length (plate scale) divided
by its physical length; and the magnification of a compound refractive telescope is
roughly twice its physical length divided by its focal length. Simple optical systems
with a single optic have magnification = 1. Fisheye lenses have magnification < 1.
This transformation was derived by direct geometrical calculation rather than being
translated from Voxland & Snyder.
OPTIONS
STANDARD POSITIONAL OPTIONS
As always, the 'origin' field specifies the sub-camera point on the sphere.
The 'roll' option is the roll angle about the sub-camera point, for consistency with
the other projectons.
p, ptg, pointing, Pointing (default (0,0,0))
The pointing direction, in (horiz. offset, vert. offset, roll) of the camera relative
to the center of the sphere. This is a spherical coordinate system with the origin
pointing directly at the sphere and the pole pointing north in the pre-rolled
coordinate system set by the standard origin. It's most useful for space-based images
taken some distance from the body in question (e.g. images of other planets or the
Sun).
Be careful not to confuse 'p' (pointing) with 'P' (P angle, a standard synonym for
roll).
c, cam, camera, Camera (default undef)
Alternate way of specifying the camera pointing, using a spherical coordinate system
with poles at the zenith (positive) and nadir (negative) -- this is useful for aerial
photographs and such, where the point of view is near the surface of the sphere. You
specify (azimuth from N, altitude from horizontal, roll from vertical=up). If you
specify pointing by this method, it overrides the 'pointing' option, above. This
coordinate system is most useful for aerial photography or low-orbit work, where the
nadir is not necessarily the most interesting part of the scene.
r0, R0, radius, d, dist, distance [default 2.0]
The altitude of the point of view above the center of the sphere. The default places
the point of view 1 radius aboove the surface. Do not confuse this with 'r', the
standard origin roll angle! Setting r0 < 1 gives a viewpoint inside the sphere. In
that case, the images are mirror-reversed to preserve the chiralty of the perspective.
Setting r0=0 gives gnomonic projections; setting r0=-1 gives stereographic projections.
Setting r0 < -1 gives strange results.
iu, im_unit, image_unit, Image_Unit (default 'degrees')
This is the angular units in which the viewing camera is calibrated at the center of
the image.
mag, magnification, Magnification (default 1.0)
This is the magnification factor applied to the optics -- it affects the amount of
tangent-plane distortion within the telescope. 1.0 yields the view from a simple
optical system; higher values are telescopic, while lower values are wide-angle
(fisheye). Higher magnification leads to higher angles within the optical system, and
more tangent-plane distortion at the edges of the image. The magnification is applied
to the incident angles themselves, rather than to their tangents (simple two-element
telescopes magnify tan(theta) rather than theta itself); this is appropriate because
wide-field optics more often conform to the equidistant azimuthal approximation than to
the tangent plane approximation. If you need more detailed control of the relationship
between incident angle and focal-plane position, use mag=1.0 and compose the transform
with something else to tweak the angles.
m, mask, Mask, h, hemisphere, Hemisphere [default 'near']
'hemisphere' is by analogy to other cartography methods although the two regions to be
selected are not really hemispheres.
f, fov, field_of_view, Field_Of_View [default 60 degrees]
The field of view of the telescope -- sets the crop radius on the focal plane. If you
pass in a scalar, you get a circular crop. If you pass in a 2-element list ref, you
get a rectilinear crop, with the horizontal 'radius' and vertical 'radius' set
separately.
EXAMPLES
Model a camera looking at the Sun through a 10x telescope from Earth (~230 solar radii
from the Sun), with an 0.5 degree field of view and a solar P (roll) angle of 30 degrees,
in February (sub-Earth solar latitude is 7 degrees south). Convert a solar FITS image
taken with that camera to a FITS lon/lat map of the Sun with 20 pixels/degree latitude:
# Define map output header (no need if you don't want a FITS output map)
$maphdr = {NAXIS1=>7200,NAXIS2=>3600, # Size of image
CTYPE1=>longitude,CTYPE2=>latitude, # Type of axes
CUNIT1=>deg,CUNIT2=>deg, # Unit of axes
CDELT1=>0.05,CDELT2=>0.05, # Scale of axes
CRPIX1=>3601,CRPIX2=>1801, # Center of map
CRVAL1=>0,CRVAL2=>0 # (lon,lat) of center
};
# Set up the perspective transformation, and apply it.
$t = t_perspective(r0=>229,fov=>0.5,mag=>10,P=>30,B=>-7);
$map = $im->map( $t , $maphdr );
Draw an aerial-view map of the Chesapeake Bay, as seen from a sounding rocket at an
altitude of 100km, looking NNE from ~200km south of Washington (the radius of Earth is
6378 km; Washington D.C. is at roughly 77W,38N). Superimpose a linear coastline map on a
photographic map.
$x = graticule(1,0.1)->glue(1,earth_coast());
$t = t_perspective(r0=>6478/6378.0,fov=>60,cam=>[22.5,-20],o=>[-77,36])
$w = pgwin(size=>[10,6],J=>1);
$w->fits_imag(earth_image()->map($t,[800,500],{m=>linear}));
$w->hold;
$w->lines($x->apply($t),{xt=>'Degrees',yt=>'Degrees'});
$w->release;
Model a 5x telescope looking at Betelgeuse with a 10 degree field of view (since the
telescope is looking at the Celestial sphere, r is 0 and this is just an expensive
modified-gnomonic projection).
$t = t_perspective(r0=>0,fov=>10,mag=>5,o=>[88.79,7.41])