Questions tagged [equal-area]
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ArcGIS treats two similar projections definition differently
I am about to recreate a global grid in ArcMAP, based on the Behrmann projection I though.
The map I want to recreate has this definition (in the .prj file):
PROJCS["...
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Calculate total area of both adjacent and contiguous raster cells within a radial distance around a polygon's centroid
I have a raster containing grid-cell values of either 1 or no data, NA, representing used- or unused-habitat types, respectively.
Using R's raster package, I want to calculate the total area (in ...
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Appropriate equal-area cylindrical projection for Southeast Asia?
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I am facing difficulty in selecting an appropriate equal-area map projection suitable for the geographical extent of Southeast Asia. The main resource I am consulting is Savric et al's ...
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EPSG codes for projections to use when computing the area of global polygon sets in python env
The general answer to this question is "Use any equal area projection in units of meters that covers the world". Python code needed to make use of this is short and sweet:
import geopandas as gpd
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Dividing polygons into equal parts by the number of points inside
I would like to divide many polygons into 2, 3 or 4 parts.
I have vectorized plants. Sometimes 2, 3 or more plants hide under one polygon. Depending on the size I just have to divide the polygon into ...
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How to split polygon into equal area polygons in QGIS 3?
There is a plugin in QGIS 2.18 called 'Polygon Divider' which divides an irregular polygon into smaller equal-area polygons of a specified/custom-sized but in QGIS 3.x version there is no 'Polygon ...
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Calculate area of ellipsoidal polygon with QGIS
There is online service of GeographicLib, by Karney, where one can calculate the area of ellipsoidal polygon without need of reprojection.
Can one calculate the area of geometry in QGIS so as ...
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Accurate area calculation for countries worldwide individually [closed]
I have polygons of countries with its administrative divisions, I would calculate the areas of each division in a country accurately.
I got the bounding boxes for each country, then I divided its ...
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Geometric difference between equal-area and conformal projection
For simplification, let's have a source light for a map projection.
I know where to put the source light in order to get an orthographic, stereographic, gnomonic map projection, but I still don't ...
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Equal area projection of Antarctica ?
I was looking for an equal area projection of Antarctica, but it seems that the Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area (https://epsg.io/3974 , also called 102020 by ESRI) is deprecated because it is not a "true"...
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How can I use the Eckert IV projection with GeoServer WMS?
I'm trying to request a map in the Eckert IV using a WMS hosted by GeoServer. When I set srs=EPSG:54012 in my query string, I just get a sad XML response:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ...
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Equal area projection
In which projection I should project a polygon of a country to get the right area in the attribute table without a distortion? For example greenland
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problem converting OTF from Mercator to equal area
QGIS 1.8.0 on OSX 10.10.5: I've got continent outlines from Natural Earth that are in EPSG:4326 (degrees) plus USGS tree range data in EPSG:2030 (also degrees). When I set the project CRS to EPSG:4326 ...
