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

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2019-05-08 v2 Geophysics

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.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1612.03467,
  title  = {A new method to subdivide a spherical surface into equal-area cells},
  author = {Zinovy Malkin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.03467},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

More details and comparison with other isolatitudinal methods added

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