convert area to actual units

underworldcode / stripy

2D spherical and Cartesian triangulation toolkit using tripack, stripack, srfpack and ssrfpack

https://underworldcode.github.io/stripy/2.0.5b2_api

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convert area to actual units #106

Open dialuser opened 2 years ago

dialuser commented 2 years ago

Hi I have a silly newbie question. sTriangulation returns areas of a unit sphere. So to convert this to actual areas on earth, should I multiply the areas by 4piR^2, with R the earth radius? Thanks. Alex