GeoHemisphere

GeoHemisphere[]

is a two-dimensional GeoGraphics primitive that represents the half of the Earth centered at your current geo location.

GeoHemisphere[loc]

represents the half of the Earth centered at the location loc.

Details

  • The boundary of the hemisphere is a line contained on a plane that goes through the center of the Earth.
  • The location loc can be specified as latitude and longitude coordinates {lat,lon} in degrees, as GeoPosition[{lat,lon}], or as named entities Entity[…].

Examples

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Basic Examples  (2)

The hemisphere around the current geo location:

The hemisphere centered at Buenos Aires, in the Albers projection:

Scope  (2)

The hemisphere around your current geo location:

The hemisphere around a particular location, specified in several possible ways:

Properties & Relations  (4)

The boundary of GeoHemisphere[loc] is given by GeoHemisphereBoundary[loc]:

DayHemisphere[date] is equivalent to GeoHemisphere[loc] for the location having the Sun at its zenith at the given date:

This is the geo location that has the Sun at its zenith at that moment:

NightHemisphere[date] is equivalent to GeoHemisphere[loc] for the antipode of the Sun position:

GeoHemisphere is the limit of infinite height of GeoVisibleRegion:

The orthographic projection exactly shows a hemisphere of the Earth:

Wolfram Research (2015), GeoHemisphere, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoHemisphere.html.

Text

Wolfram Research (2015), GeoHemisphere, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoHemisphere.html.

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2015. "GeoHemisphere." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoHemisphere.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2015). GeoHemisphere. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoHemisphere.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2024_geohemisphere, author="Wolfram Research", title="{GeoHemisphere}", year="2015", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoHemisphere.html}", note=[Accessed: 21-December-2024 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2024_geohemisphere, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={GeoHemisphere}, year={2015}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoHemisphere.html}, note=[Accessed: 21-December-2024 ]}