HiPS - Hierarchical Progressive Survey Version 1.0
Abstract
This document presents HiPS, a hierarchical scheme for the description, storage and access of sky survey data. The system is based on hierarchical tiling of sky regions at finer and finer spatial resolution which facilitates a progressive view of a survey, and supports multi-resolution zooming and panning. HiPS uses the HEALPix tessellation of the sky as the basis for the scheme and is implemented as a simple file structure with a direct indexing scheme that leads to practical implementations.
- Publication:
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IVOA Recommendation 19 May 2017
- Pub Date:
- May 2017
- DOI:
- 10.5479/ADS/bib/2017ivoa.spec.0519F
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1708.09704
- Bibcode:
- 2017ivoa.spec.0519F
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- doi:10.5479/ADS/bib/2017ivoa.spec.0519F