Essays about: "Least-cost path"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words Least-cost path.

  1. 1. Multi-Criteria GIS modelling for optimal alignment of roadway by-passes in the Tlokweng Planning Area, Botswana

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Milan Sekulic; [2019]
    Keywords : GIS; Multi-criteria analysis; DEFINITE; Sensitivity Analysis; Python; AHP; Least-cost path; Dijkstra’s algorithm; ArcPy; Geography; model; road alignment; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : To find the optimal by-pass road alignment in the Tlokweng Planning Area in Botswana, a multi-criteria spatial-based model is developed using the GIS-MCE approach. In respect to the environmental impact assessment (EIA) approach, in this research a set of criteria is classified under 3 themes – economic, environmental and social. READ MORE

  3. 2. Villages and valleys: connectivity and land use in Northern Messenia during Middle and Late Helladic periods.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Arkeologi

    Author : Vasiliki Tsoumari; [2019]
    Keywords : Bronze Age; Middle Helladic; Late Helladic; GIS; spatial analysis; viewshed; visibility; kernel density estimation; least cost path; connectivity; Messenia; Greece;

    Abstract : The use of past archaeological survey data for examination of landscape dynamics became very popular during the last decades of the 20th century, when Geographical Information Systems analysis were introduced in archaeology. In the present thesis, past survey data from Northern Messenia’s Middle and Late Helladic periods are combined to the topography and the environment of the region. READ MORE

  4. 3. Routes of Iron - Least Cost Path Analysis of the Possible Routes and Ways in which Iron was Transported during the Later Part of Iron Age in Scania, Halland and Småland

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Arkeologi

    Author : Simon Rosborg; [2018]
    Keywords : Least Cost Path; iron; Iron Age; waterways; roads; travel; transport; Early Medieval Period; boats; wagons; hollow way; landscape; History and Archaeology;

    Abstract : Iron is an important material in the study of societies of the Iron Age and later periods. Not only does it give its name to the period it was also an integrated part in every humans’ life from the Iron Age and forward. And yet this material is many times just assumed to be there without much consideration of how it got there. READ MORE

  5. 4. Decarbonizing Public Bus Transport – a case study on Curitiba, Brazil

    University essay from KTH/Energi och klimatstudier, ECS

    Author : Joana Lena Düllmann Vasques Pereira; [2018]
    Keywords : Battery electric bus; Brazil; Charging station; Curitiba; Greenhouse gas emissions; Opportunity charging; Optimisation; Public transport network; Brasil; Carregamento de oportunidade; Curitiba; Estação de recarga; Gases com efeito de estufa; Ônibus eléctricos a baterias; Otimisação; Sistema de Transporte Público; Batteribuss; Brasilien; Laddstation; Curitiba; Växthusgas utsläpp; Opportunity Charging; optimering; kollektivtrafik;

    Abstract : Air pollution is becoming a major issue in cities across the world, its common cause being the use of fossil fuel combustion engines in both private and collective transport modes. However, alternative technologies, such as biofuels, hybrid and battery electric vehicles, are on the rise. READ MORE

  6. 5. Improving usability of land warfare simulator: pathfinding and adaptive speed based on geographic data

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT)

    Author : Olof Engström; Gabriel Lördal Tigerström; [2017]
    Keywords : warfare simulation; geographic data; educational software; geographic information systems; geospatial analysis;

    Abstract : SANDIS II is a land warfare simulation and analysis tool developed by the Finnish Defence Research Agency. The Swedish Defence Research Agency has evaluated SANDIS II to have potential as a war gaming aid within education, at the Swedish Defence University. However, operating the tool is considered too difficult to avail that potential. READ MORE