Tradeoffs when multiple observer siting on large terrain cells

Progress in Spatial Data Handling - 12th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, SDH 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 845-861

  Franklin, W Randolph ^a   Vogt, Christian ^b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Intervisibility; Line of sight; Multiple observers; Siting; Terrain visibility; Viewshed

Indexed keywords

INTERVISIBILITY; LINE OF SIGHT; MULTIPLE OBSERVERS; SITING; VIEWSHED;

DATA HANDLING; VISIBILITY;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 84885207511     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-35589-8_52     Document Type: Conference Paper

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