What software products use the PYXIS Digital Earth Reference Model?
While the Digital Earth Reference Model is surprisingly a new idea, its inspiration is not. Ecologists have used similar hexagonal grid patterns in GAP analysis for years. In essence, PYXIS is a “spreadsheet” of hexagonal cells over the planet surface with special mathematical properties to aggregate and decompose information to coarser or finer resolutions – allowing for fast and progressive transmission, efficient Boolean operations, geometry and algebra. It is essentially a database index that can also represent any real number address or location, so any database application can use PYXIS immediately for integrating and analysis – converting traditional coordinates to PYXIS index (a lossless bidirectional operation).
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