Fitting scattered data on spherelike surfaces using tensor products of trigonometric and polynomial splines (Q1183051)

The authors give a method for fitting a function defined on a spherelike surface \(S\); the approximating surface is constructed using a tensor product of polynomial splines with trigonometric splines. The use of trigonometric splines assures that the resulting surface is continuous and has continuous tangent planes at all points on \(S\). Also, they give two algorithms for computing the coefficients of the tensor fit. Several cases are tested numerically. They confirm the third order of convergence of the approximations.