Advancing visibility modelling algorithms for urban environments

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 518-531

  Bartie, Phil ^a,b   Reitsma, Femke ^b   Kingham, Simon ^b   Mills, Steven ^a  

^a Geospatial Research Centre (NZ)   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Landmarks; Location Based Services; Pedestrian urban exploration; Visibility

Indexed keywords

CONTEXTUAL FILTERING; FEATURE VISIBILITY; LANDMARKS; LOCATION BASED SERVICES; MODELLING TECHNIQUES; NUMBER OF METHODS; PEDESTRIAN URBAN EXPLORATION; URBAN CONTEXT; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; URBAN PLANNING; VISIBILITY;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ALGORITHM; GIS; MODELING; PEDESTRIAN; RESEARCH WORK; TRACKING; URBAN AREA; VISIBILITY;

EID: 78149285214     PISSN: 01989715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2010.06.002     Document Type: Article

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