sphere_triangle_quad, a FORTRAN90 code which estimates the integral of a scalar function F(X,Y,Z) over a spherical triangle on the unit sphere.
Three methods of estimation are very crude and cannot be improved:
One method of estimation uses random sampling, the Monte Carlo method, whose accuracy can be improved by increasing the number of sample points.
Another method is based on the centroid rule, but allows the user to decompose the original spherical triangle into collection of smaller triangles. The accuracy of the estimate should improve as the size of these triangles decreases.
The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.
sphere_triangle_quad is available in a C version and a C++ version and a Fortran90 version and a MATLAB version and an Octave version and a Python version.
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