Use a more robust intersection area computation #205
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Fixes a crash reported in https://jira.stsci.edu/browse/JP-3636 due to
spherical_geometry
raisingMalformedPolygonError
exception when computing area of some intersection polygons. Now, when this error is occurs, it is caught and the intersection area is set to 0. This has potential to result in sub-optimal order in which images will be aligned but in practice should have minimal effect.