A new method to subdivide a spherical surface into equal-area cells
arXiv:1612.03467
Abstract
A new method is proposed to divide a spherical surface into equal-area cells. The method is based on dividing a sphere into several latitudinal bands of near-constant span with further division of each band into equal-area cells. It is simple in construction and provides more uniform latitude step be-tween latitudinal bands than other methods of isolatitudinal equal-area tessellation of a spherical surface.
This version presents an outdated algorithm that has been substantially developed in the paper "A new equal-area isolatitudinal grid on a spherical surface", AJ., 2019, 158(4), 158 (https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab3a44), also available in arXiv:1909.04701