PropertyValue
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Alden Partridge Colvocoresses
rdfs:comment
  • Colonel Alden Partridge Colvocoresses (1918-March 27, 2007), US Army (Ret.), 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.
owl:sameAs
Unit
  • 1
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:military/property/wikiPageUsesTemplate
Birth Date
  • 1918
Branch
death place
  • Inova Fairfax Hospital
Name
  • Alden Partridge Colvocoresses
Birth Place
  • Humboldt, Arizona
Awards
  • *
death date
  • 2007-03-27
Rank
  • Colonel
Battles
laterwork
  • Pioneer in satellite mapping techniques
placeofburial
abstract
  • Colonel Alden Partridge Colvocoresses (1918-March 27, 2007), US Army (Ret.), 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.