Parallel variable-resolution bathymetric estimation with static load balancing

A method for partitioning a large computation task (direct, variable resolution bathymetric grid construction from raw observations) into thread-parallel code is described. Based on the data density estimated for the first pass of the null chrt null algorithm, this algorithm statically partitions the estimation task into spatially distinct blocks of approximately equal total data observation count so that each can be executed in parallel and be...