Korean War Vietnam War Alden Partridge Colvocoresses (September 23, 1918 – March 27, 2007) helped to develop the Space-oblique Mercator projection with John P. Snyder and John Junkins, and developed the first satellite map of the United States in 1974.

Colvocoresses was also twice awarded the Silver Star for valor: once, for capturing a German tank in Tunisia; and again, for escaping his Italian captors in North Africa.

Colvocoresses spent the rest of his career working for the U.S. Geological Survey's national mapping division, retiring in 1990.

He was a research cartographer on the Landsat satellite program and received two patents for models of remote sensing systems.

Alden helped to develop the first satellite map of the United States.