Efficient Sampling on HEALPix Grid

Adeem Aslam, Zubair Khalid, Rodney A. Kennedy

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    Abstract

    We propose an iso-latitude sampling scheme for the representation of band-limited signals on the sphere. The proposed scheme is designed as a variant of the widely used Hierarchical Equal Area iso-Latitude Pixelization (HEALPix) scheme on the sphere. We use HEALPix grid of resolution N to represent a signal of bandlimit (spherical harmonic degree) L. To reduce the number of samples, the proposed algorithm takes only L iso-latitude rings out of 4N-1 rings of the HEALPix. This selection is carried out by ensuring that the spherical harmonic transform (SHT) of the signal is computed accurately from the samples. The number of samples required by the proposed sampling scheme is smaller than that required by HEALPix by at least a factor of 3/2. For the proposed sampling scheme, we also formulate the spherical harmonic transform and conduct numerical experiments to evaluate the number of samples required by the proposed sampling scheme and the accuracy of the associated SHT.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2018 - Proceedings
    PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
    Pages4589-4593
    Number of pages5
    ISBN (Print)9781538646588
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 10 Sept 2018
    Event2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2018 - Calgary, Canada
    Duration: 15 Apr 201820 Apr 2018

    Publication series

    NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
    Volume2018-April
    ISSN (Print)1520-6149

    Conference

    Conference2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2018
    Country/TerritoryCanada
    CityCalgary
    Period15/04/1820/04/18

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