Generation and Analysis of Parameterized Terrain for Land Combat.

Abstract

Many current army combat simulation models require digitized terrain inputs for their execution, resulting in a costly and time-consuming operation. A methodology to generate parametric terrain as a function of the number of hill masses and the height, location, spread, and slope of the hills is presented in this paper. Modified Bivariate Normal (MBVN) distribution function and a linear function cutting the MBVN function are employed to achieve the terrain representation. Analysis of various terrain parameter values was conducted and the significant trends resulting from the study are described. Finally, recommendations for future enhancement of the model are given. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA041172

Entities

People

  • Chung Young Kim

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Combat Simulations
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Distribution Functions
  • High Resolution
  • Land Warfare
  • Line Of Sight
  • Normal Distribution
  • Observers
  • Operations Research
  • Security
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Synthetic Environment Simulations
  • Targets
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Computer Vision.
  • Statistical inference.