MOYSES (MOdeller and Simulator for ViSual Impact AssESsment) V. 3.0

This communication shows a procedure aimed at aiding in the Landscape Impact Assessment caused by new lineal infrastructure services such as motorways, to be constructed. Measuring the magnitude and intensity of linear infrastructure facilities visual impact turns out to be exceedingly complex because infinite views exist that potentially must be considered. How can we reduce this amount of views to a discrete and manageable set? The core of the problem is that there is a non finite set of landscapes to be considered (and analyzed); however, according to the proposed model, if some suitable Computer Graphics libraries are used, it is possible to automatically produce a reduced catalog of realistic images simulating, each of them, the effect that the new infrastructure causes on the environment, just at the sites where the landscape is liable to more damage, and seen from the points of view where the number of potential observers is at a maximum. Such computational tool is called MOYSES, an automation solution integrated in Autodesk's Civil 3D, although it is easily portable to other systems.