Tutorials#

To Start#

Quick Start

Recommended for beginners

Learn bases of healpix-geo in 15 minutes : conversions of coordinates, understand depth, and visualised your first HEALPix cells.

Quickstart
Ellipsoids

Understand why and how to use ellipsoid of reference such as WGS84 for precise geodesic calculations.

Ellipsoids basics

Basic Tutorials#

Coordinates Conversion

Master the conversions between geographic coordinates (lon/lat) and HEALPix indices, with the different indexing schemes.

Advanced coordinate conversion
Cover requests

Learn to find all HEALPix cells that intersect a region.

Cover requests

Advanced Tutorials#

Working with MOC

Use les Multi-Order Coverage maps to represent complex regions in a compact way.

Work with MOC
Performance optimisation

Techniques for optimizing performance: vectorization, multi-threading, and best practices.

Performance optimisations