Isochrone Maps for Military Ground Movement: Information Inference by Intersection

A primary objective in contemporary military operations is to streamline planning processes, enabling quicker and more informed decision-making while alleviating burdens on both military and civilian personnel. Our work aims to facilitate this planning, particularly for resupply operations, asset coordination, and predicting enemy troop movements. We use isochrones on a geospatial road network to represent ground unit movement and visualize possible interactions between assets in a given timeframe. How isochrones are shaped, and whether they overlap is information the planner can use for his decision-making. We improve upon existing approaches by implementing a way to represent offroad-travel possibilities of ground assets. The resulting software can be used in military training simulations. Furthermore, we plan to utilize isochrones as action space representations for battlefield simulations.