Abstract

The Miller Oblated Stereographic Projection, implemented by both the American Geographical Society and the Defense Mapping Agency in small-scale mapping of Africa, Europe, Asia and Australasia, is conformal for most land masses, reducing overall scale and area distortion by using a double projection. “Fill-in” sections are not conformal. Developed in 1953–1955 by O. M. Miller, the projection is implemented via tables for map construction. With the advent of computer-assisted intelligence and operations systems that use this projection to provide electronic images, the computation of rectangular projection coordinates from geographic locations via table look-up is no longer adequate. This paper presents an algorithm, based upon the original Miller work, which performs this transformation in a form applicable to scientific programming languages.

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