Enhancing Intervisibility Analyses Using Multi-Computing Techniques

Abstract

The report describes research intended to enhance the timeliness and scope for analyses to decisions related to intervisibility. The research entailed feasibility studies followed by the design, development and use of prototype software to: 1. Manage the completion of a large number of visibility analyses, each of which determines the visible regions from a point in a Digital Elevation Model. The project accomplishes the visibility analyses by efficient use of spare CPU cycles on a network of processors running Windows. 2. Build a database from these analyses for a test grid of 1201 rows, each with 1201 columns. 3. Extract information from the database using a series of tactical decision aids (TDAs) and metrics. 4. Extend the ArcMap application in the ArcGIS product suite, to provide access to these metrics and TDAs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA460341

Entities

People

  • Mike Mineter
  • Steve Dowers

Organizations

  • University of Edinburgh

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Basic Programming Language
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Data Sets
  • Debugging
  • Digital Elevation Models
  • Earth Sciences
  • Feasibility Studies
  • Geography
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Models
  • Operating Systems
  • Prototypes
  • Shell Scripts
  • Statistics
  • Tactical Decision Aids

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.