Accession Number:

AD0753701

Title:

Detection of Surface-Specific Points by Local Parallel Processing of Discrete Terrain Elevation Data,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

MARYLAND UNIV COLLEGE PARK COMPUTER SCIENCE CENTER

Personal Author(s):

• Peucker, Thomas K.
• Johnston, Emily G.

Report Date:

1972-11-01

Pagination or Media Count:

29.0

Abstract:

The report describes several methods designed to detect pits, peaks, passes, ridges, ravines and breaks, given an array of samples, quantized terrain elevations. The methods all use local analysis of the data they are parallel in the sense that the results at each point do not depend on results already obtained at other points. Author

Descriptors:

• *MAPPING
• TERRAIN INTELLIGENCE
• TOPOLOGY
• SAMPLING
• CONTROL SEQUENCES
• TERRAIN MODELS
• COMPUTER PROGRAMMING

Subject Categories:

• Cartography and Aerial Photography

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE