Energetically optimal travel terrain: Visualizations and a new metric of geographic distance with anthropological applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6060, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wood, Brian M ^a   Wood, Zoë J ^b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaeology; Least cost path; Optimization; Travel

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS (DEMS); GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS); LEAST COST PATH; TRAVEL;

CRITICAL PATH ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TRANSPORTATION;

INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

EID: 33645691908     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.644376     Document Type: Conference Paper

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