An Area Preserving Projection from the Regular Octahedron to the Sphere

Results in Mathematics

Volumn 62, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 429-444

  Roşca, Daniela ^a   Plonka, Gerlind ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CLUJ NAPOCA   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Equal area projection; hierarchical grid; refinable grid; uniform spherical grid

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868365968     PISSN: 14226383     EISSN: 14209012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00025-012-0286-2     Document Type: Article

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