Re: [OpenMap Users] Non-GUI use of OpenMap / line of sight visibility capability?

From: Chip Masters <chip_masters_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 13:48:31 -0700 (PDT)

Christopher,

Check out the class

com.bbn.openmap.tools.terrain.LOSGenerator

This class works for surfaces stored as DTED raster
maps.

Chip Masters

--- "Esposito, Christopher"
<christopher.esposito_at_boeing.com> wrote:

> Greetings-
> I have been on and off this list over the last 3
> years, depending on
> what projects I'm on at work. Since I'm currently
> working on a project
> involving the design optimization and deployment of
> sensor networks, I'm
> back on.
>
> My initial interest this time is in non-GUI uses of
> OpenMap - I need
> code that correctly does geometric / geographic
> coordinate systems,
> projections, distance calculations, etc. and it
> looks like the contents
> of com.bbn.openmap.proj will do much of what I want.
> Is it possible to
> use Openmap in this way, as a calculation engine
> without any map
> display?
>
> On a separate but related topic, does OpenMap
> already have a line of
> sight visibility calculation available? That is,
> given two points on the
> surface at specified lat / long and elevation (and
> optionally specified
> terrain between them) can I determine if either
> point is visible from
> the other?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
> Chris Esposito, Ph.D.
> Associate Technical Fellow
> Boeing
> (425) 865-5322
>
>
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