Friday 6 September 2019

arcgis desktop - Calculating the visibility of an observer walking a line transect


I was wondering if anyone can help. I'm want to calculate the visibility for an observer doing a bird survey by walking 1km transects broken up into 200m sections.


I want to calculate the visibility for each transect using 6 points for each 200m section so as to get as close to what a walking observer would be able to see as possible.


Originally I used a viewshed to do this and created a 250m buffer around each point then calculated the % area visible in each. However the problem is viewshed shows me what would be visible from at least one of the points and I want to know what would be visible from each point individually or atleast each set of 6 points that make up a 200m section. I have 320 200m sections in my survey so that's 1920 points which makes it impossible to do this by creating a separate viewshed for each point. Are there any alternative ways I can do this?




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