Why use equal-area maps?

Given the choices of either shape distortion or areal distortion or both, the equal-area projections were chosen for the EASE Grids because they minimized the amount of distortion over the hemispheric and global areas being portrayed. One convenient side effect of this choice is that calculations of areal statistics are reduced to simply summing pixels and multiplying by a constant area per pixel, so the acronym, EASE takes on a secondary meaning, as in easy to use.

Read A Guide to EASE Grids for more information.

Last Updated September 2019