Approximating Visibility - WR Franklin (WRF)

Wm Randolph Franklin, Program Director

Numeric, Symbolic, and Geometric Computation Program
CISE/C-CR
National Science Foundation

on leave from

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

http://wrfranklin.org/

wrfATecse.rpi.edu (PGP available)

Presented at GIScience 2000, Savannah, Georgia, USA, 30 Oct 00.

This work was sponsored as independent research and development by NSF, Directorate for Computer and Information Sciences & Engineering, Division of Computer-Communications Research.

  1. Confessions
  2. Strategy
  3. How Parts Fit Together
  4. Why Visibility?
  5. Terminology
  6. Confidence Intervals
  7. Korea Test Case
  8. Radius and Height Effect on Visibility
  9. Visibilities, Animated Radius, Fixed Height
  10. Visibilities, Animated Height, Fixed Radius
  11. The Visibility Index Program
  12. Auxiliary Programs
  13. Most Visible Korea Points
  14. Top Points, Animated Radius, Fixed Height
  15. Top Points, Animated Height, Fixed Radius
  16. Visibility Index Histograms
  17. Varying the Number of Targets
  18. Adirondacks - 1201x1201 Test
  19. Visibilities, Animated Radius, Fixed Height
  20. Visibilities, Animated Height, Fixed Radius
  21. Adirondacks Histograms, Times
  22. 24 Random DEMs
  23. Observations
  24. Elevation vs Visibility Plot
  25. Siting Observers
  26. Proposed Future Work
  27. How Parts Fit Together (Review)
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