[Numpy-discussion] 2d binning on regular grid

Friedrich Romstedt friedrichromstedt at gmail.com
Thu Jun 3 12:00:33 EDT 2010


Hello Andreas,

please see this as a side remark.

A colleague of mine made me aware of a very beautiful thing about
covering spheres by evenly spaced points:

http://healpix.jpl.nasa.gov/

Since you want to calculate mean and stddev, to my understanding a
grid in longitude/latitude is without proper weighting factors
problematic.  Do you use weighting factors?  If yes, of what kind?

For Healpix, there exists exists a Python binding, but I never worked with it.

Friedrich



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