Mainland Southeast Asia: A Folio of Thematic Maps for Military Users

Abstract

Militarily important environmental factors within mainland Southeast Asia are topics of seventeen thematic maps in this report. The relationships between military operations and selected natural and cultural phenomena have been analyzed and mapped. Supplementing the cartographic coverage are narrative discussions, graphs, and tables. Nine of the maps relate directly and quantitatively to predictable physiological stress conditions, to food storage life expectancies, and to estimated visibility distances within different vegetational types. These maps are based on laboratory and/or field test determinations. Other maps in the series are concerned with the distributional relationships of such environmental factors as ethnolinguistic groups, ethnic minority types, malaria endemicity, and cloudiness regimes. This study has been developed with the expectation that it will serve as a useful aid in military planning for Southeast Asia, and that it may also serve as a prototype for similar studies of other regions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0718603

Entities

People

  • A. D. Hastings Jr.
  • J. M. Planalp
  • R. J. Frodigh
  • T. E. Niedringhaus

Organizations

  • United States Army Soldier Systems Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Asia
  • Body Weight
  • Environment
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Forests
  • Geographic Regions
  • Geography
  • Human Population
  • Language
  • Malaria
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Operations
  • Minority Groups
  • Plants
  • Southeast Asia
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Vegetables

Readers

  • Archaeological Resource Survey
  • Library and Information Science/ Studies, Southeast Asia Studies, Bibliography of Vietnam and Lao Studies.
  • Systems Analysis and Design