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9780471969778

Landform Monitoring, Modelling and Analysis

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    9780471969778

  • ISBN10:

    047196977X

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1998-05-08
  • Publisher: Wiley
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Summary

Geomorphologists played a major role in the 1960s and 1970s in terrain research as the potential of the computer was realised for both storing and manipulating landform information. With growth in the subject area, further technological development, and a growing input from other disciplines, much of this research has moved into the domain of GIS and Remote Sensing, where the involvement of geomorphologists has inevitably been reduced, despite the importance of this type of research to geomorphology in general. This book comprises selected and full-refereed papers from a recent BGRG Annual Conference which was held with these issues in mind. The book contains both review and original and significant research papers that consider recent methodological developments in, and the constraints of, current terrain monitoring and modelling methods in geomorphology, along with the application of these methods to specific geomorphological problems. By providing up-to-date research by leaders in the field of terrain study this book will be of enormous value to undergraduates, research students and research scientists in geomorphology, mapping science and GIS and Remote Sensing, as well as those working in industry who use, or need to apply terrain research methods.

Author Biography

Stuart N. Lane is the author of Landform Monitoring, Modelling and Analysis, published by Wiley.

Keith S. Richards is the author of Landform Monitoring, Modelling and Analysis, published by Wiley.

Jim H. Chandler is the author of Landform Monitoring, Modelling and Analysis, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors vii(4)
Preface xi
Chapter 1 Landform Monitoring, Modelling and Analysis: Land Form in Geomorphological Research
1(18)
S.N. Lane
J.H. Chandler
K.S. Richards
Section 1 TECHNICAL ISSUES 19(198)
Chapter 2 Datums, Coordinates and Differences
21(16)
M.A.R. Cooper
Chapter 3 The Global Positioning System and its Use for Terrain Mapping and Monitoring
37(26)
D.R. Twigg
Chapter 4 Analytical Photogrammetry for Geomorphological Research
63(32)
L.F.J. Dixon
R. Barker
M. Bray
P. Farres
J. Hooke
R. Inkpen
A. Merel
D. Payne
A. Shelford
Chapter 5 Quality, Use and Visualisation in Terrain Modelling
95(24)
M.J. McCullagh
Chapter 6 What do Terrain Statistics Really Mean?
119(20)
I.S. Evans
Chapter 7 The Effect of GIS Interpolation Errors on the Use of Digital Elevation Models in Geomorphology
139(26)
S.M. Wise
Chapter 8 Landform and Lineament Mapping using Radar Remote Sensing
165(30)
C.P. Vencatasawmy
C.D. Clark
R.J. Martin
Chapter 9 Image Analysis of Aerial Photography to Quantify the Effect of Gold Placer Mining on Channel Morphology, Interior Alaska
195(22)
D.J. Gilvear
T.M. Waters
A.M. Milner
Section 2 APPLICATION 217(218)
Chapter 10 Terrain-based Approaches to Environmental Resource Evaluation
219(22)
J.P. Wilson
J.C. Gallant
Chapter 11 The Role of GIS in Watershed Analysis
241(22)
D.R. Montgomery
W.E. Dietrich
K. Sullivan
Chapter 12 A Generalised Topographic-Soils Hydrological Index
263(16)
R. Lamb
K. Beven
S. Myrabo
Chapter 13 Terrain Information in Geomorphological Models: Stability, Resolution and Sensitivity
279(32)
P.D. Bates
M.G. Anderson
M. Horritt
Chapter 14 The Use of Digital Terrain Modelling in the Understanding of Dynamic River Channel Systems
311(32)
S.N. Lane
Chapter 15 Mass Balance and Flow Variations of Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Switzerland, Calculated using Digital Terrain Modelling Techniques
343(20)
I.C. Willis
N.C. Arnold
M.J. Sharp
J-M. Bonvin
B.P. Hubbard
Chapter 16 The Transient Snowline on Glaciers: Topographic Controls and Implications for Melt Predictions
363(22)
O.C. Turpin
R.I. Ferguson
C.D. Clark
Chapter 17 The Use of Terrain Analysis in the Evaluation of Snow Cover Over an Alpine Glacier
385(20)
L. Copland
Chapter 18 Coastal Management and Sea Level Rise: a Morphological Approach
405(16)
J.S. Pethick
Chapter 19 Geomorphological and Hydrodynamic Results from Digital Terrain Models of the Humber Estuary
421(14)
J. Hardisty
R. Middleton
D. Whyatt
H. Rouse
Author Index 435(7)
Subject Index 442(11)
Website Index 453

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