Supported WCS Projections

Montage supports all projections supported by the World Coordinate System (WCS).

The following projection combinations have been formally tested, although not all have been subject to scientific validation :

(Click here to see a key explaining the WCS abbreviations)

Input
Projection		 Output
Projection
AIT TAN
AIT CAR
AIT COE
AIT BON
AIT QSC
ARC TAN
AZP TAN
BON TAN
BON ZEA
BON AIT
CAR AIT
CAR COE
CEA TAN
CEA SIN
COD TAN
COE TAN
COE CAR
COE AIT
COO TAN
COP TAN
CSC TAN
CYP TAN
MER TAN
MOL TAN
NCP TAN
PAR TAN
PCO TAN
QSC TAN
QSC AIT
SFL TAN
SIN TAN
SIN SIN
STG TAN
SZP TAN
TAN SIN
TAN TAN
TAN CEA
TAN ZEA
TAN CAR
TAN AIT
TAN COE
TAN QSC
TAN BON
TAN STG
TAN NCP
TAN ARC
TAN ZPN
TAN AIR
TAN AZP
TAN SZP
TAN MER
TAN CYP
TAN SFL
TAN PAR
TAN MOL
TAN COP
TAN COD
TAN COO
TAN PCO
TAN TSC
TAN CSC
TSC TAN
ZEA TAN
ZEA BON
ZPN TAN

 

WCS Projection Abbreviations:

AIT Hammer-Aitoff
ARC Zenithal equidistant
AZP Zenithal Perspective
BON Bonne's projection
CAR Cartesian
CEA Cylindrical Equal Area (requires parameterization by latitude)
COD Conic Equidistant
COE Conic Equal Area
COO Conic orthomorphic
COP Conic perspective
CSC COBE quad-cube
CYP Cylindrical perspective
MER Mercator
MOL Molleweide
NCP North Celestial Pole (SIN special case)
PAR Parabolic
PCO Polyconic projection
QSC Quadrilateral Spherical Cube
SFL Sanson-Flamsteed
SIN Generalized stereographic
STG Stereographic
SZP Slant zenithal perspective
TAN Gnomonic (tangent plane)
TSC Tangential Spherical Cube
ZEA Zenithal/azimuthal Equal Area
ZPN Zenithal Polynomial