Improved visibility computation on massive grid terrains

GIS: Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 121-130

  Fishman, Jeremy ^a   Haverkort, Herman ^b   Toma, Laura ^a  

^a BOWDOIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Design; Experimentation; Performance

Indexed keywords

CACHE-OBLIVIOUS; CONCENTRIC BANDS; DATA SETS; GRID POINTS; HARD DRIVES; REGULAR GRIDS; TERRAIN PROFILE; VISIBILITY COMPUTATION; VISIBILITY MAPS;

ALGORITHMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GRID COMPUTING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; NASA; VISIBILITY;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 74049129863     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1653771.1653791     Document Type: Conference Paper

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