Situation Analysis for Route Planning in Hilly Terrain
Sureel Srivastava, Benidhar Deshmukh, T. Ramkumar · Journal of scientific research · 2022
While travelling from one point to another in an unknown region, a user will come across many factors that would affect the move. If this move is in a threatened region, the factors affecting the move will be related to terrain and the situation. Thus, the information required for the move will be both natural and situational. Conventionally this information has to be analysed and converted to an optimum route. This would be based on analyzing the capability and experience of the individual. The natural or terrain factors can be known in advance and the situational factors have to be factored in dynamically. If the region is hilly, the slope will be the deciding factor for the shortest path along with the type of ground and the time of the move. Hence, natural factors have to be dovetailed along with situational factors to arrive at an optimum path. The intricate relationship between risk and time can be analysed with the help of the Risk-Time model. The relationship between all the factors being discussed can be found using a probabilistic model of the Bayesian network.