Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica ›› 2016, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (S1): 1-14.doi: 10.11947/j.AGCS.2016.F001

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Overview of the Research Progress in the Earth Tessellation Grid

ZHAO Xuesheng1, BEN Jin2, SUN Wenbin1, TONG Xiaochong2   

  1. 1. College of Earth Science and Surveying Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology(Beijing), Beijing 100083, China;
    2. College of Surveying and Mapping, Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou 450052, China
  • Received:2016-08-20 Revised:2016-10-20 Online:2016-12-31 Published:2017-03-29
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 41671394;41671383)

Abstract: By analyzing the related literatures on the earth tessellation grid (ETG) in recent 10 years, the research achievements in this field are systematic reviewed in four aspects, i.e. the earth subdivision modeling (include quadrangle subdivision, equal-area subdivision and 3D subdivision), encoding computation (include hierarchical encoding computation, filling curve encoding computation and integer coordinate encoding computation), grid quality assessment (include evaluation criteria, evaluation factors, and propagation trend in diffferent levels) and typical applications (include government agency applications,business software applications and industry applications). The structural characteristics, applicable models and their shortcomings in the different grid models are given in details. Finally, some advanced academic problems in the ETG are given based on the completeness of basic theory, the efficiency of grid computing, and the reliability of grid quality.

Key words: earth tessellation grid, grid encoding computing, grid quality evaluation

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