A new method to subdivide a spherical surface into equal-area cells

2016/12/11 by Zinovy Malkin, Malkin, Zinovy
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation #Digital Image Processing Techniques #Electromagnetic Scattering and Analysis #FOS: Physical sciences #Geophysics (physics.geo-ph) #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1612.03467

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Abstract

A new method is proposed to divide a spherical surface into equal-area cells. The method is based on dividing a sphere into several latitudinal bands of near-constant span with further division of each band into equal-area cells. It is simple in construction and provides more uniform latitude step be-tween latitudinal bands than other methods of isolatitudinal equal-area tessellation of a spherical surface.

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