An area preserving projection from the regular octahedron to the sphere

DOI10.1007/S00025-012-0286-2zbMath1260.86015OpenAlexW2110010302MaRDI QIDQ1759054

Daniela Roşca, Gerlind Plonka-Hoch

Publication date: 19 November 2012

Published in: Results in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00025-012-0286-2

zbMATH Keywords

equal area projectionhierarchical griduniform spherical gridrefinable grid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to geophysics (86-08) Geodesy, mapping problems (86A30) Computational methods for problems pertaining to astronomy and astrophysics (85-08)

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Uses Software

• Healpix

Cites Work

• Uniform and refinable grids on elliptic domains and on some surfaces of revolution
• Uniform spherical grids via equal area projection from the cube to the sphere
• A partition of the unit sphere into regions of equal area and small diameter
• Map Projections
• On the sum of distances betweenn points on a sphere

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