IVOA Recommendation: HiPS - Hierarchical Progressive Survey
Pierre Fernique, Mark Allen, Thomas Boch, Tom Donaldson, Daniel, Durand, Ken Ebisawa, Laurent Michel, Jesus Salgado, Felix Stoehr

TL;DR
HiPS is a hierarchical tiling scheme for sky survey data that enables efficient multi-resolution viewing and access, based on HEALPix tessellation, supporting progressive zooming and panning.
Contribution
This paper introduces HiPS, a novel hierarchical tiling scheme for sky surveys that improves data access and visualization through a simple, practical file structure.
Findings
Enables progressive multi-resolution viewing of sky surveys
Supports efficient data storage and access via hierarchical tiling
Based on HEALPix tessellation for uniform sky coverage
Abstract
This document presents HiPS, a hierarchical scheme for the description, storage and access of sky survey data. The system 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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Taxonomy
TopicsRemote Sensing and LiDAR Applications · Satellite Image Processing and Photogrammetry · Remote Sensing in Agriculture
