AE: Albers Equal Area

Parameter Name

Description

PARM1

Latitude, in degrees, of the first standard parallel, usually the nothernmost.

PARM2

Latitude, in degrees, of the second standard parallel, usually the southernmost. This may be the same as PARM1 to obtain a conic with a single point of tangency.

Note  The northern (PARM1) and southern (PARM2) standard parallels are not interchangeable.

ORG_LAT

Latitude, in degrees, of the origin of the projection.

ORG_LNG

Longitude, in degrees, of the origin of the projection.

X_OFF

The false easting to be applied to all X coordinates, selected to cause all X coordinates within the coordinate system to be positive values of reasonable size.

Y_OFF

The false northing to be applied to all Y coordinates.