Harnessing Spherical Geometry in Scientific and Engineering Data Processing

球形信息是许多自然现象的基础，从宇宙中星系的分布到人类大脑中的连接和神经元激活。目前对科学和医疗仪器的重大投资不能有效地收集和处理大量数据，因为它们没有适当地利用其固有的球形几何形状。通过利用球面几何，该项目旨在解决上述缺点，并在所有这些应用领域提供进步。通过更有效地收集和处理数据，具有更高的保真度，并通过揭示当前隐藏的特征，开发的方法有望从捕获这些数据的仪器中获得充分的好处。

Spherical information underpins many natural phenomena, ranging from the distribution of galaxies in the Universe to the connectivity and neuronal activation in the human brain. Current major investments in scientific and medical instrumentation do not efficiently collect and process the massive amounts of data because they do not properly utilise its inherent spherical geometry. Through harnessing spherical geometry, this project aims to address the above shortcomings and to provide advances across all these application domains. By collecting and processing data more efficiently, with greater fidelity, and by revealing features currently hidden, the methods developed are expected to see the full benefit from the instrumentation capturing this data.