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Pentagonal geospatial indexing system DGGS. Contribute to felixpalmer/a5 development by creating an account on GitHub.
Once data is in a cell-based format, it becomes much simpler to perform analysis such as calculating the correlation between different variables - for example elevation and crop yield. The appropriate choice of DGGS will depend on the use case, the key strengths of A5 over other similar indexing systems are: DGGSs are generally based on a planar cell tiling which is applied to the sides of a platonic solid, before being projected onto a sphere.
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