Quantifying Impacts of Urban Growth Potential on Army Training Capabilities

Abstract

Building on previous studies of urban growth and population effects on U.S. military installations and training activities (e.g.,Wilhoit et al. 2016), this report describes methodology and applies a methodology for quantifying urban development and encroachment impacts. The authors propose a distance-weighted assessment of population growth around the training areas to include both current population and projected urban growth. The results of this study demonstrate improvement over the previous methodology.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 12, 2017
Accession Number
AD1049250

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People

  • James D. Westervelt
  • Juliana Mcmillan-wilhoit
  • Michelle E. Swearingen
  • Scott A. Tweddale

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  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army Training
  • Climate Change
  • Data Processing
  • Data Sets
  • Department Of Defense
  • Economic Analysis
  • Endangered Species
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Flood Hazards
  • Geography
  • Infrastructure
  • Training
  • United States
  • Urban Areas
  • User Interface
  • Vulnerability

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  • Economics
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation