Combined Spherical Harmonic and Wavelet Expansion - a Future Concepts in Earth" s Gravitational Determination

  • The basic theory of spherical singular integrals is recapitulated. Criteria are given for measuring the space-frequency localization of functions on the sphere. The trade off between space localization on the sphere and frequency localization in terms of spherical harmonics is described in form of an uncertainty principle. A continuous version of spherical multiresolution is introduced, starting from continuous wavelet transform corresponding to spherical wavelets with vanishing moments up to a certain order. The wavelet transform is characterized by least-squares properties. Scale discretization enables us to construct spherical counterparts of wavelet packets and scale discrete Daubechies" wavelets. It is shown that singular integral operators forming a semigroup of contraction operators of class (Co) (like Abel-Poisson or Gauß-Weierstraß operators) lead in canonical way to pyramyd algorithms. Fully discretized wavelet transforms are obtained via approximate integration rules on the sphere. Finally applications to (geo-)physical reality are discussed in more detail. A combined method is proposed for approximating the low frequency parts of a physical quantity by spherical harmonics and the high frequency parts by spherical wavelets. The particular significance of this combined concept is motivated for the situation of today" s physical geodesy, viz. the determination of the high frequency parts of the earth" s gravitational potential under explicit knowledge of the lower order part in terms of a spherical harmonic expansion.

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Author:Willi Freeden, U. Windheuser
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:386-kluedo-5458
Series (Serial Number):Berichte der Arbeitsgruppe Technomathematik (AGTM Report) (144)
Document Type:Preprint
Language of publication:English
Year of Completion:1995
Year of first Publication:1995
Publishing Institution:Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Date of the Publication (Server):2000/04/03
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Altdaten, kein Volltext verfügbar ; Printversion in Bereichsbibliothek Mathematik vorhanden: MAT 144/620-144
Source:Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis (ACHA), 4, 1-37 (1997)
Faculties / Organisational entities:Kaiserslautern - Fachbereich Mathematik
DDC-Cassification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 510 Mathematik
Licence (German):Standard gemäß KLUEDO-Leitlinien vor dem 27.05.2011