Uniform Measures and Spherical Harmonics.

Spherical Splines: beyond Spherical Harmonics for Non-uniform Geophysical Datasets on the Moon and Mercury

Introduction: Global-scale datasets, preferably with nearly uniform coverage are important elements of many geophysical studies of the planets and their moons. However, uniformly resolved data are not always available, for example, determination of the gravity field of the Earth’s moon suffers from this problem because the data depend upon line-of-sight tracking of a spacecraft’s radio signal. ...

Spherical Harmonics

5 Spherical Harmonics 7 5.1 Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 5.2 Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 5.2.1 Harmonic expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 5.2.2 Convolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Kernels of Spherical Harmonics and Spherical Frames

Our concern is with the construction of a frame in L 2 (S) consisting of smooth functions based on kernels of spherical harmonics. The corresponding decomposition and reconstruction algorithms utilize discrete spherical Fourier transforms. Numerical examples connrm the theoretical expectations. x1. Introduction Traditionally, wavelets were tailored to problems on the Euclidean space IR d. Howev...

Tensor Spherical Harmonics and Tensor Spherical Splines

In this paper, we deal with the problem of spherical interpolation of discretely given data of tensorial type. To this end, spherical tensor elds are investigated and a decomposition formula is described. It is pointed out that the decomposition formula is of importance for the spectral analysis of the gra-vitational tensor in (spaceborne) gradiometry. Tensor spherical harmonics are introduced ...

3 Generalized Spherical Harmonics