Thank you Frank W., Nikos A. and Ed McN. I used gdalinfo to get the needed information from an existing GeoTiff file then used ogr2ogr -s_srs WGS84 -t_srs "+proj=laea +lat_0=45 +lon_0=-100 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +datum=WGS84 +units=m +no_defs" -f "ESRI Shapefile" destination.shp source.shp Kent Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center