The Impact of Microrelief Forms on Mobility of Terrain Vehicles

Abstract

When deploying off-road vehicles in military and rescue operations, it is necessary to analyse the characteristics of the terrain, its segmentation and obstacles, that can significantly eliminate the movement of this technique. The mobility of off-road vehicles depends on many factors such as terrain relief, soil, vegetation, water, road network, settlement unit structure, meteorological conditions, etc. The goal of this paper is to identify the critical micro-relief forms in the selected test area, which can be important for the transportation analyses and cartographic visualization, especially for the military and rescue operations management during the crisis situations and natural disasters such as floods, fires, storms, military operations, etc. Both of the relief parameters and technical vehicles parameters were considered for the cross-country movement analysis to predict the GO, SLOW GO and NO GO areas as a part of crisis management support.