We describe two current projects with our toolkit for siting multiple observers on terrain. (Both observers and targets are at some specified height above ground level. Observers can see targets, when not hidden by the terrain, out to a specified radius of interest.) Siting the observers so that they are intervisible, i.e., so that the visibility graph is a connected set, is the first project. ...

The siting of an increasing range of facilities has become a major policy problem for all nations alike. Developers often face significant resistance from community interests in seeking to site socially desirable facilities. Siting is inherently political. While in some cases, developers are unable to get community agreement for projects, in others, they have had more success. This overview pap...

the most important environmental pollutant in steel industry is air pollution due to the process of its products. optimise sitting for this industry, in a great extend will prevent pollutants and emissions. khorasan steel company is located near some populous villages and three rivers. it is necessary to perform an investigation for providing abatement and control of air pollution, in time of p...

[1] Recent photographic documentation of poor siting conditions at stations in the U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) has led to questions regarding the reliability of surface temperature trends over the conterminous United States (CONUS). To evaluate the potential impact of poor siting/instrument exposure on CONUS temperatures, trends derived from poor andwell sited USHCN stations wer...

INTRODUCTION Right siting has been actively advocated to mitigate rising healthcare costs as well as to free up tertiary resources for the provision of care to more complex patients, research and education. There are, however, concerns that in a block budget setting right siting will reduce patient volumes, thus impacting on subsequent funding allocations and also patient revenues. We sought to...

Efforts to find locations for new energy facilities are often associated with the now familiar term NIMBY (not in my backyard) and even more extreme phrases like BANANA (build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything). These acronyms capture some of the problems associated with siting new power plants and power lines, but the issue as a whole is more complex than these expressions suggest. The...

Standardization of high voltage electric transmission line siting methodologies, by using GIS spatial analysis tools, has great potential in helping predict and defend new optimal route corridors. A standard methodology that incorporates multiple weighted perspectives of influence can aid in the route approval by the governmental and regulating permitting entities and the support of the affecte...

Under the predominant existing paradigm, in balancing the public interest in transmission line planning and siting decisions most state regulatory authorities weigh the benefits to the customers of a specific utility system, or to the consumers in an individual state, against potential adverse consequences. This approach to transmission siting was designed to serve the model of a vertically-int...

This paper demonstrates a toolkit for multiple observer siting to maximize their joint viewshed, on high-resolution gridded terrains, up to 2402 × 2402, with the viewsheds’ radii of up to 1000. It shows that approximate (rather than exact) visibility indexes of observers are sufficient for siting multiple observers. It also shows that, when selecting potential observers, geographic dispersion i...