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sphere.spherical.to.sphere.cart: Convert from spherical to Cartesian coordinates

Description

Convert locations of points on sphere in spherical coordinates to points in 3D cartesian space

Usage

sphere.spherical.to.sphere.cart(phi, lambda, R = 1)

Arguments

phi

vector of lattitudes of N points

lambda

vector of longitudes of N points

R

radius of sphere

Value

An N-by-3 matrix in which each row is the cartesian (X, Y, Z) coordinates of each point