Current US government regulations state that cellular phone companies have the right to install towers in any town where they perceive a market exists. Towns, in most cases, are willing to comply with this regulation, but many do not have access to the required technologies to perform the site selection themselves. These towns must defer the analysis to the cell phone companies. Recently, the small town of Paxton in Central Massachusetts approached the Clark Labs to assist them in doing their own analysis for cell tower location after having been approached by a cell phone company that wished to expand their services. A viewshed analysis was deemed the best approach to the problem. A combination of tools in IDRISI, including the VIEWSHED module, was employed for the analysis.
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GIS Weekly Magazine
Susan Smith
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Look for the next issue of GIS Weekly Magazine on May 28, 2012.
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