<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><mads xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/mads/" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mads/
mads.xsd"><authority><topic authority="http://AATesaurus.cultura.gencat.cat/aat/getty_en">stereographic projection</topic></authority><related type="broader"><topic>azimuthal projection</topic></related><variant type="other"><topic>projection, stereographic</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>stereography</topic></variant> <note xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[ Refers to a projection that represents a solid body on a plane, generally used in the context of projecting the Earth or other heavenly body on a plane in making maps. It is typically characterized by a projection of a hemisphere depicting the Earth's lines of latitude and longitude on a tangent plane, where radials are generated from a point on the surface of the sphere opposite to the point of tangency. ]]></note></mads>