The foundation of modern Digital Earth frameworks is the Discrete Global Grid System(DGGS).To standardize the DGGS model,the Open Geospatial Consortium(OGC)recently created the DGGS Abstract Specification,which also a...The foundation of modern Digital Earth frameworks is the Discrete Global Grid System(DGGS).To standardize the DGGS model,the Open Geospatial Consortium(OGC)recently created the DGGS Abstract Specification,which also aims to increase usability and interoperability between DGGSs.To support these demands and aid future research,open implementations are necessary.However,several OGC conformant DGGSs are not available for researchers to use.This has motivated us to develop an open-source web service that allows users to create quadrilateral grids based on the rHEALPix DGGS.In this paper,we describe the implementation of the web service,including issues and limitations,and demonstrate how discrete global grids and regional grids can be created.Lastly,we present examples that show how vector data sets can be modeled and integrated at different levels of resolution–a key benefit of the DGGS model.展开更多
Digital Earth frameworks provide a way to integrate,analyze,and visualize large volumes of geospatial data,and the foundation of such frameworks is the Discrete Global Grid System(DGGS).One approach in particular,the ...Digital Earth frameworks provide a way to integrate,analyze,and visualize large volumes of geospatial data,and the foundation of such frameworks is the Discrete Global Grid System(DGGS).One approach in particular,the rHEALPix DGGS,has the rare property of distribution of cell nuclei along rings of constant latitude(or isolatitude rings).However,this property is yet to be explored.In this paper,we extend existing work on the rHEALPix DGGS by proposing a method to determine the isolatitude ring on which the nucleus of a given cell falls by converting a cell identifier to isolatitude ring without recourse to geodetic coordinates.In addition,we present an efficient method to calculate the geodetic latitude of a cell’s nucleus via its associated isolatitude ring.Lastly,we use the proposed methods to demonstrate how the isolatitude property of the rHEALPix DGGS can be utilized to facilitate latitudinal data analysis at multiple resolutions.展开更多
基金the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC-DG).
文摘The foundation of modern Digital Earth frameworks is the Discrete Global Grid System(DGGS).To standardize the DGGS model,the Open Geospatial Consortium(OGC)recently created the DGGS Abstract Specification,which also aims to increase usability and interoperability between DGGSs.To support these demands and aid future research,open implementations are necessary.However,several OGC conformant DGGSs are not available for researchers to use.This has motivated us to develop an open-source web service that allows users to create quadrilateral grids based on the rHEALPix DGGS.In this paper,we describe the implementation of the web service,including issues and limitations,and demonstrate how discrete global grids and regional grids can be created.Lastly,we present examples that show how vector data sets can be modeled and integrated at different levels of resolution–a key benefit of the DGGS model.
基金funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada(NSERC).
文摘Digital Earth frameworks provide a way to integrate,analyze,and visualize large volumes of geospatial data,and the foundation of such frameworks is the Discrete Global Grid System(DGGS).One approach in particular,the rHEALPix DGGS,has the rare property of distribution of cell nuclei along rings of constant latitude(or isolatitude rings).However,this property is yet to be explored.In this paper,we extend existing work on the rHEALPix DGGS by proposing a method to determine the isolatitude ring on which the nucleus of a given cell falls by converting a cell identifier to isolatitude ring without recourse to geodetic coordinates.In addition,we present an efficient method to calculate the geodetic latitude of a cell’s nucleus via its associated isolatitude ring.Lastly,we use the proposed methods to demonstrate how the isolatitude property of the rHEALPix DGGS can be utilized to facilitate latitudinal data analysis at multiple resolutions.
