Route planning for a ground vehicle through unfamiliar terrain

A computer-readable storage medium for supporting one or more ground vehicles on a mission that includes traversal of a ground region, the computer-readable storage medium being non-transitory and having computer-readable program code stored therein that, in response to execution by processing circuitry, causes an apparatus to at least:

• produce terrain data that describes the ground region based on geospatial data;
• weight the terrain data based on constraints of the one or more ground vehicles, and an order of priority of criteria of the mission, wherein the terrain data includes terrain datasets for respective ones of a plurality of terrain metrics;
• construct a map of the ground region from the terrain datasets as aggregated;
• and
• output an indication of a route for the one or more ground vehicles to traverse during the mission.

An apparatus for supporting one or more ground vehicles on a mission that includes traversal of a ground region, the apparatus comprising:

• a memory configured to store computer-readable program code;
• and
• processing circuitry configured to access the memory, and execute the computer-readable program code to cause the apparatus to at least:
• produce terrain data that describes the ground region based on geospatial data;
• weight the terrain data based on constraints of the one or more ground vehicles, and an order of priority of criteria of the mission, wherein the terrain data includes terrain datasets for respective ones of a plurality of terrain metrics;
• weight the terrain datasets, in which different ones of the terrain datasets are weighted differently based on the constraints of the one or more ground vehicles;
• and
• output an indication of a route, via a series of waypoints, for the one or more ground vehicles to traverse during the mission.