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viewshed

noun

Etymology

Modelled on watershed, with view. Compare foodshed.

Definitions

  1. The view from a particular vantage point.

    • The viewshed is the area that can be "seen" (ie is in direct line-of-sight) from the specified target locations.
    • Whilst the viewshed quantifies visibility for a limited set of test locations...
    • The major shortcoming of viewshed analysis is the accuracy of the results.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for viewshed. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA