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Problems and methods of calculating the Legendre functions of arbitrary degree and order / Elena Novikova in Geodesy and cartography, vol 65 n° 2 (December 2016)
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Titre : Problems and methods of calculating the Legendre functions of arbitrary degree and order Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Elena Novikova, Auteur ; Alexander Dmitrenko, Auteur Année de publication : 2016 Article en page(s) : pp 289 - 312 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie physique
[Termes IGN] Earth Gravity Model 2008Résumé : (auteur) The known standard recursion methods of computing the full normalized associated Legendre functions do not give the necessary precision due to application of IEEE754-2008 standard, that creates a problems of underflow and overflow. The analysis of the problems of the calculation of the Legendre functions shows that the problem underflow is not dangerous by itself. The main problem that generates the gross errors in its calculations is the problem named the effect of “absolute zero”. Once appeared in a forward column recursion, “absolute zero” converts to zero all values which are multiplied by it, regardless of whether a zero result of multiplication is real or not. Three methods of calculating of the Legendre functions, that removed the effect of “absolute zero” from the calculations are discussed here. These methods are also of interest because they almost have no limit for the maximum degree of Legendre functions. It is shown that the numerical accuracy of these three methods is the same. But, the CPU calculation time of the Legendre functions with Fukushima method is minimal. Therefore, the Fukushima method is the best. Its main advantage is computational speed which is an important factor in calculation of such large amount of the Legendre functions as 2 401 336 for EGM2008. Numéro de notice : A2016-979 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : MATHEMATIQUE/POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article DOI : 10.1515/geocart-2016-0017 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1515/geocart-2016-0017 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=83696
in Geodesy and cartography > vol 65 n° 2 (December 2016) . - pp 289 - 312[article]