Advances in Digital Terrain Analysis
- Author
- Qiming Zhou, Brian Lees, Guo-an Tang
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Publisher
- Springer
- Language
- English
- Document Type
- Book
- Faculty / Subject Heading
- Environmental Science
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Terrain analysis has been an active study field for years and attracted research studies from geographers, surveyors, engineers and computer scientists. With the rapid growth of Geographical Information System (GIS) technology, particularly the establishment of high resolution Digital Elevation Models (DEM) at national level, the challenge is now focused on delivering justifiable socio-economical and environmental benefits. The contributions in this book represent the state of the art of terrain analysis methods and techniques in areas of digital representation, morphological and hydrological models, uncertainty and applications of terrain analysis.
Keywords: Earth and environmental science / Digital Terrain Modelling / GIS / Geoinformationssysteme / Geomorphometry / Hydrologic Modelling / Terrain Analysis / Vegetation / Digital elevation model / Geographical Information Systems / Cartography
