Dynamic Modeling of 3D Urban Terrain: An ARO Multi-University Research Initiative
ARO 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...
Recent News
Video from the September 10th presentations is now available for MURI member login.
