Research Article

Research and Construction of a Global Hexagonal Marine Gravity Gradient Reference Map for Navigation

Table 2

Parameter statistics of the H3 grid (with a spherical radius of ).

Level Number of gridArea of grid (km2)Average side length (km)

01224,250,546.84770001,107.712591000
1842607,220.9782429418.676005500
25,88286,745.8540347158.244655800
341,16212,392.264862159.810857940
4288,1221,770.323551722.606379400
52,016,842252.90336458.544408276
614,117,88236.12905213.229482772
798,825,1625.16129321.220629759
8691,776,1220.73732760.461354684
94,842,432,8420.10533250.174375668
1033,897,029,8820.01504750.065907807
11237,279,209,1620.00214960.024910561
121,660,954,464,1220.00030710.009415526
1311,626,681,248,8420.00004390.003559893
1481,386,768,741,8820.00000630.001348575
15569,707,381,193,1620.00000090.000509713

Note: the information in this table is taken from the Internet (https://h3geo.org/).