Dynamic Modeling of 3D Urban Terrain: An ARO Multi-University Research Initiative
Army Research Office - Broad Agency Announcement
FY07 MURI Topic # 28, Dynamic Modeling of 3D Urban Terrain
Background: Urban terrain is particularly challenging to model because it has "ubiquitous" discontinuities (walls, corners) as well as planar regions and regions of slow and rapid smooth change and it has multivalent height and non-genus-0 topology (buildings, overhangs, bridges, underpasses, subways, etc.). Point-cloud data for urban terrain is becoming widely available both in databases and in real time...
Overview
Terrain models are a rich resource to both military and civilian analysts for applications such as autonomous navigation, mission planning, battlefield assessment, emergency preparedness, and assessment of natural resources. Their usefulness depends on succinct encoding of terrain data not only for fast query and retrieval but also for efficient and accurate transmission of this data over restricted communication channels...
Participating Institutions
| University of South Carolina | Virginia Tech |
| Princeton University | Rice University |
| Texas A&M University | University of California - Irvine |
| UCLA | University of Texas, Austin |
Current News for 2011
- Yr 4 MURI Government Review. University of California, Irvine, January 10, 2011.
- Meeting Agenda (with secure links to presentations immediately after the meeting)
- Logistics (Meeting Room, Travel and Hotel Information) - emailed on Oct 4 & Dec 6, 2011.
- Year 4 Interim Report (16 MB and Requires member login)
Previous News Items
- Yr 3 MURI Government Review. University of Texas, Austin, Sept 28, 2010.
- Meeting Agenda (with secure links to presentations immediately after the meeting)
- Logistics (Meeting Room, Travel and Hotel Information)
- Year 3 Interim Report (Requires member login)
- NATO SET 118 Meeting, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, April 20-22, 2010.
- Yr 2 MURI Government Review, Virginia Tech, Oct. 19, 2009.
- National MURI Program Review, Washington DC, Jun. 26, 2009.
- Yr 1 MURI Government Review, University of South Carolina (Nov 20, 2008)
- Affiliated Meetings
- NATO SET 118
- ARO STTR Phase II Government Review
- MURI Organizational Meeting (August 1, 2008)
- Participants from member institutions met to prepare for the Government On-Site Review of the MURI project which is scheduled for late Nov 2008.
- (Minutes are available for MURI member login.)
- MURI Kick-Off Meeting - Rice University (Sept 10, 2007)
- Meeting Agenda
- Videos of the presentations are available for MURI member login.
- Organizational Meeting, held at UCLA - IPAM (May 31, 2007)
