DISCOVERY OF VIEWSHEDS AND VANTAGE POINTS BY MINING GEO-TAGGED DATA

摘要

Architecture that obtains and utilizes collections of geographically-tagged data to discover optimal vantage points for viewsheds of entities of interest such as physical entities and conceptual entities such as landmarks, sunset, skyline, etc. The disclosed architecture discloses the utilization of at least geo-tagged image data to discover relationships between a combination of concrete entities and/or abstract concepts, and techniques for surfacing such relationships to users. The data can be crowd-sourced geo-tagged image data that are mined from social content and which can be observed or experienced from a certain location/area.