http://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05593
A new method Spherical Rectangular Equal-Area Grid (SREAG) was proposed in Malkin (2019) for splitting spherical surface into equal-area rectangular cells. In this work, some more detailed features of SREAG are presented. The maximum number of rings that can be achieved with SREAG for coding with 32-bit integer is $N_{ring}$=41068, which corresponds to the finest resolution of $\sim$16$”$. Computational precision of the SREAG is tested. The worst level of precision is $7\cdot10^{-12}$ for large $N_{ring}$. Simple expressions were derived to calculate the number of rings for the desired number of cells and for the required resolution.
Z. Malkin
Fri, 13 Dec 19
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Comments: Presented at the Journees 2019 “Astrometry, Earth rotation and Reference systems in the Gaia era”, Paris, France, 7-9 Oct 2019. Supporting routines are included in the distribution
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