Earth System Spatial Grid Technology

Spatial grid is an important tool for the organization, expression, simulation, analysis, sharing and visualization of spatial data, while earth system spatial grid is a tool targeted at study of process and phenomenon of large-scale earth system. Based on the comprehensive review on the global spatial grid, the book explores the development trend of global spatial grid, and sets the concept and definition of earth system spatial grid. The book then presents a way of achieving earth system spatial grid, i.e. a variation of SDOG and elaborates on corresponding grid coding method. It also presents the conversion between grid coding and usual coordinates, proximity and hierarchical search algorithm, and elaborates on the several applications of earth system spatial grid in three-dimensional expression modeling.

This book could provide reference for the scientists and graduates specializing in global spatial grid, as well as for scientists specializing in atmospheric science and geophysics.