When planning a mission, equipment and troop placement
is extremely important. Questions like "Where are the invasion corridors?"
and "Where should troops be placed to protect an invasion corridor?"
require a detailed view of the terrain. Terrain Analysis features
are designed to visualize topographical data accurately.
With a few mouse clicks, a user can create a line-of-sight
chart to check whether troops and equipment are correctly positioned.
By drawing a rectangle on the map, the user can get the terrain elevation
chart to check whether a planned route uses roads that are too steep
or can find the best way to reach an area using the automated valley
detection and terrain-gradient displays.
Your applications can display maps that drill down from
worldwide views to street views without compromising application response
time
The Terrain Analysis features consist of:
Line of Sight between 2-point vertical
views
3D View
Fly Through (trajectory on a 3D View)
Area of Sight
Line of Sight along a Terrain Cut
Terrain Gradient computation
Terrain Valley computation
The API
Along with these delivered plug-ins, JViews Maps for Defense provides a full set of APIs for accessing
model data, including customer-defined computation algorithms with
GUI interactors.