G.Projector Credits and Acknowledgments

G.Projector was written by:

Robert Schmunk
Robert.B.Schmunk@nasa.gov
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
2880 Broadway
New York, NY 10025 USA

G.Projector uses the following third-party, open-source Java libraries, provided under license as indicated. You may view the licenses and download the source code for these libraries at the URLs provided.

iText Java-PDF library, ver. 2.0.
Copyright © 1999-2007 by Bruno Lowagie and Paulo Soares.
Available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/itext/files/.
Used under terms of the Mozilla Public License. (Note: Releases of iText subsequent to version 2.0 use a different license.)

JDOM library, ver 1.1.2.
Copyright © 2000-2011 Jason Hunter and Brett McLaughlin.
Available at http://www.jdom.org/.
Used under terms of a modified Apache License.

QuantizeFilter and related classes.
Copyright © 1998-2006 Jerry Huxtable.
Available at http://www.jhlabs.com/ip/.
Used under terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Quaqua file chooser and related classes, version 7.4.2.
Copyright © 2003-2011 Werner Randelshofer.
Available at http://www.randelshofer.ch/quaqua/.
Used under terms of a Modified BSD License.

Thanks to Paul B. Anderson for assistance with cartography references and sample code for some map projections.

The following texts have been particularly useful in developing the map projections code in G.Projector:

Canters, F., 2002: Small-scale Map Projection Design. Taylor & Francis.

Canters, F., and H. Decleir, 1989: The World in Perspective: A Directory of World Map Projections. John Wiley & Sons.

Čapek, R., and J. Forstová, 2004: The cartographic projections of R.V. Putniņš. Cartographica, 39 (4), 15-25, doi:10.3138/R577-R420-MXH5-4276.

Evenden, G., 1995: Cartographic Projection Procedures, Release 4, Second Interim Report. PDF file dated Sep. 24, 1995.

Evenden, G., 2005: libproj4: A Comprehensive Library of Cartographic Projection Functions (Preliminary Draft). PDF file dated March 2005.

Furuti, C.A., 2002-2007: Map Projections. Website last accessed at http://www.progonos.com/furuti/MapProj/, May 9, 2012.

Ipbüker, C., and I.O. Bildirici, 2002: A general algorithm for the inverse transformation of map projections using Jacobian matrices. In Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Applications (Sep. 4-6, 2002, Konya, Turkey), pp. 175-182.

Snyder, J.P., 1977: A comparison of pseudocylindrical map projections. American Cartographer, 4 (1), 59-81, doi:10.1559/152304077784080031.

Snyder, J.P., 1982: Map Projections Used by the U.S. Geological Survey, 2nd ed. Geological Survey Bulletin 1532. U.S. Government Printing Office.

Snyder, J.P., 1987: Map Projections — A Working Manual. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1395. U.S. Government Printing Office.

Snyder, J.P., 1993, 1997: Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections. University of Chicago Press.

Snyder, J.P., and P.M. Voxland, 1989: An Album of Map Projections. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1453. U.S. Government Printing Office.