| Article ID: | iaor20163323 |
| Volume: | 63 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Start Page Number: | 374 |
| End Page Number: | 385 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2016 |
| Journal: | Naval Research Logistics (NRL) |
| Authors: | Washburn Alan, Brown Gerald G |
| Keywords: | heuristics, military & defence |
On the surface of a sphere, we take as inputs two points, neither of them contained in any of a number of spherical polygon obstacles, and quickly find the shortest route connecting these two points while avoiding any obstacle. The WetRoute method presented here has been adopted by the US Navy for several applications.