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Hello, I’m Thomas Buckley-Houston, but you can call me Tom. I am from Wales, but I’ve been traveling the world full time since 2015.

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Packing the world for longest lines of sight

I have a side project to find the longest line of sight on the planet 1 using a novel Total Viewshed algorithm . At a resolution of 3 arc-seconds (~92m x 92m), the planet contains around 4.5 billion elevation samples 2 . Now obviously we don’t need to calculate the visibility between literally every single one of…