Essays about: "least-cost path analysis"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words least-cost path analysis.
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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 ekosystemvetenskapAbstract : 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
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2. Villages and valleys: connectivity and land use in Northern Messenia during Middle and Late Helladic periods.
University essay from Uppsala universitet/ArkeologiAbstract : 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
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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/ArkeologiAbstract : 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
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4. Improving usability of land warfare simulator: pathfinding and adaptive speed based on geographic data
University essay from KTH/Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT)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
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5. Developing a GIS model for the assessment of outdoor recreational facilities in new cities : case study : Tenth of Ramadan City, Egypt
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskapAbstract : With population that exceeds 90 million inhabitants, Egypt is one of the large Arab developing countries where the government policies headed towards constructing new urban communities to absorb the vast increase in population. Although the physical planning of the new urban settlements took into consideration the existence of outdoor recreational services and facilities, the quality and adequacy of these services cannot be measured only by their presence. READ MORE
