A Human-Goal-Based Approach to the Analysis and Processing of Visibility Data

Abstract

Despite the great amount of research devoted to the visibility problem, very little attention has been devoted so far to measure or compare visibility data in a way which is consistent with "human-based" goals, as of interest in typical military applications. In fact, terrains are usually compared using mathematical norms which are unable to measure distances in terms of their visibility properties. The objective of this report is to introduce a functional-theoretic framework to deal with the notion of visibility and develop mathematically well-defined and practically effective tools to process visibility information, including the comparison, analysis and classification of visibility data. In particular, a new notion of difference of visibility distance is introduced, as a theoretical and computational tool for the comparison of terrain models from the point of their visibility properties.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 30, 2010
Accession Number
ADA535082

Entities

People

  • Demetrio Labate
  • Gitta Kutyniok

Organizations

  • University of Houston

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computations
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Science
  • Continuity
  • Department Of Defense
  • Discontinuities
  • Functional Analysis
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Geometry
  • Line Of Sight
  • Mathematics
  • Military Applications
  • Models
  • Observation
  • Students
  • Terrain Models
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Climatology
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Educational Psychology