Terrain Elevation Data Structure Operations
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We describe several programs working with 1201x1201 gridded (array) terrain elevation data: determining the viewshed of an observer, and the visibility indices of all points, converting from a grid to a TIN, losslessly and lossily compressing a grid, and interpolating from contours to a grid. The intent is to integrate these, and new, programs, into a test suite the better to understand hypsography.
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Session / Séance 51 - C Terrain Elevation Data Structure Operations
We describe several programs working with 1201x1201 gridded (array) terrain elevation data: determining the viewshed of an observer, and the visibility indices of all points, converting from a grid to a TIN, losslessly and lossily compressing a grid, and interpolating from contours to a grid. The intent is to integrate these, and new, programs, into a test suite the better to understand hypsogr...
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