An approach for spherical harmonic analysis of non-smooth data

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1654-1668

  Wang, Hansheng ^a   Wu, Patrick ^b   Wang, Zhiyong ^a,c  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Non smooth data; Programming; Recursion relations; Spherical harmonic analysis

Indexed keywords

FLOWCHARTING; FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); INTEGRATION; INTERNET; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS;

NON-SMOOTH DATA; RECURSION RELATIONS; SPHERICAL HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

FLOWCHARTING; FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INTEGRATION; INTERNET; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; DATA SET; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; RESOLUTION; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

EID: 33747836230     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2006.03.004     Document Type: Article

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