Measurement of areas on a sphere using Fibonacci and latitude-longitude lattices

Details Measurement of areas on a sphere using Fibonacci and latitude-longitude lattices Measurement of areas on a sphere using Fibonacci and latitude-longitude lattices

2009-12-23

arxiv.org/abs/0912.4540v1

Mathematics

Metric Geometry

Mathematical Geosciences, in press. 19 pages, 8 figures, 77 references

Scientific paper

10.1007/s11004-009-9257-x

The area of a spherical region can be easily measured by considering which sampling points of a lattice are located inside or outside the region. This point-counting technique is frequently used for measuring the Earth coverage of satellite constellations, employing a latitude-longitude lattice. This paper analyzes the numerical errors of such measurements, and shows that they could be greatly reduced if the Fibonacci lattice were used instead. The latter is a mathematical idealization of natural patterns with optimal packing, where the area represented by each point is almost identical. Using the Fibonacci lattice would reduce the root mean squared error by at least 40%. If, as is commonly the case, around a million lattice points are used, the maximum error would be an order of magnitude smaller.

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