Spatial-Slepian Transform on the Sphere
arXiv:2010.07266 · doi:10.1109/TSP.2021.3093260
Abstract
We present spatial-Slepian transform~(SST) for the representation of signals on the sphere to support localized signal analysis. We use well-optimally concentrated Slepian functions, obtained by solving the Slepian spatial-spectral concentration problem of finding bandlimited and spatially optimally concentrated functions on the sphere, to formulate the proposed transform and obtain the joint spatial-Slepian domain representation of the signal. Due to the optimal energy concentration of the Slepian functions in the spatial domain, the proposed spatial-Slepian transform allows us to probe spatially localized content of the signal. Furthermore, we present an inverse transform to recover the signal from the spatial-Slepian coefficients, and show that well-optimally concentrated rotated Slepian functions form a tight frame on the sphere. We develop an algorithm for the fast computation of the spatial-Slepian transform and carry out computational complexity analysis. We present the formulation of SST for zonal Slepian functions, which are spatially optimally concentrated in the polar cap~(axisymmetric) region, and provide an illustration using the Earth topography map. To demonstrate the utility of the proposed transform, we carry out localized variation analysis; employing SST for detecting hidden localized variations in the signal.
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