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viewshed analysis  

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  • Viewshed analysis, a form of visibility analysis that identifies visibility between points in a landscape, emerged as a geographic field several decades ago. Recent advances in software and computing power enabled viewshed analysis to become a common form of geographical analysis, and it is now a standard tool in many geographic information systems, enabling viewshed analysis to be used in a range of fields. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Viewshed Analysis]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-WT10HF4L-H

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