HiPS IVOA note announcement

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Christopher Stubbs
Department of Physics
Department of Astronomy 
Harvard University

> On Oct 26, 2015, at 19:38, Pierre Fernique <Pierre.Fernique at astro.unistra.fr> wrote:
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> Dear IVOA members,
> 
> We are pleased to announce the publication of the IVOA note: "HiPS - Hierarchical Progressive Survey".
> It is available on the IVOA site at this address: http://www.ivoa.net/documents/Notes/HiPS
> 
> Thanks for all other authors and contributors.
> Pierre Fernique
> 
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> Title: HiPS - Hierarchical Progressive Survey
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> Authors:  Pierre Fernique [CDS], Mark Allen [CDS], Thomas Boch [CDS], Daniel Durand [CADC], Laurent Michel [SSC-XMM], Jesus Salgado [ESAC], Felix Stoehr [ALMA] 
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> Abstract: This note presents HiPS, a hierarchical scheme for the description, storage and access of sky survey data. The principle is based on hierarchical tiling of sky regions at finer and finer spatial resolution which facilitates a progressive view of a survey, and supports multi-resolution zooming and panning. HiPS uses the HEALPix tessellation of the sky as the basis for the scheme and is implemented as a simple file structure with a direct indexing scheme that leads to practical implementations. 
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