A spatial indexing method for the hexagon discrete global grid system

Author

Ben, Jin ; Tong, Xiaochong ; Chen, Rongguo

Author_Institution

Remote Sensing Inf. Eng. Dept., Inf. Eng. Univ., Zhengzhou, China

fYear

2010

fDate

18-20 June 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

With the development of remote sensing technologies, computer friendly systems for the display and analysis of global geospatial information become more and more important. This paper concerns a method for computer representation and manipulation of global data based on multi-resolution subdivisions of regular polyhedra. A simple and efficient indexing of the cells of such a subdivision, called A3-coordinates, is introduced. These can be used to encode the 18 · 4ⁿ⁺¹ - 32 cells at the nth level of resolution of the octahedral aperture 4 hexagonal discrete global grid using 2n + 3 bits.

Keywords

geographic information systems; remote sensing; A3-coordinates; computer representation; global data; global geospatial information; hexagon discrete global grid system; multiresolution subdivisions; regular polyhedra; remote sensing; spatial indexing method; Apertures; Earth; Geographic Information Systems; Indexing; Joining processes; Mercury (metals); Pediatrics; discrete global grid; hexagon grid; indexing; spherical partition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoinformatics, 2010 18th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7301-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2010.5567972

Filename

5567972