SphereLinks

Some links:

See also SkyPixelization for Q3C method of indexing large spherical data.

• SP-GiST - Gist for space partitioned trees.
• Icosahedron - pixelize sphere
• Joining Source catalogues - relational approach, by Page Clieve (ADASS 2002)
• Indexing the Sky by Page Clieve
• Object-Relational DBMSs for Large Astronomical Catalogue Management by A. Baruffolo and L. Benacchio
• Spatial Clustering of Galaxies in Large Datasets - by SDSS guys (Hierarchical Triangular Mesh)
• Datasphere by Theodore Johnson
• R-Trees for Astronomical Data Indexing by Andrea Baruffolo
• Spatial Index Demos
• UB-tree papers
• Near-Neighbor Query Performance in Search Trees by Shuanhu Wang, Joseph M. Hellerstein and Ilya Lipkind