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...
News
- MURI Program Review, Washington DC, Jun. 26, 2009.
- MURI Government Review, Virginia Tech, Oct. 19, 2009.
Earlier News Items
- MURI Government Review - University of South Carolina (Nov 20, 2008)
- Affiliated Meetings
- NATO SET 118
- ARO STTR Phase II Government Review
- 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)
