High resolution topographic data have the potential to differentiate the main morphological features of a landscape. For the purpose of this study the Digital Terrain Models (DTMs) ranging between 1m and 20m (cell size) were derived from the last pulse LiDAR data by filtering the vegetation points. We tested the effects of different resolutions in the analysis of river morphology, and potential...

Four decades after conversion from chaparral to grass, zero-order watersheds were compared to identify differences in topography and its relation to soil characteristics. Three watersheds of each vegetation type were topographically mapped and sampled at random points for depth to weathered bedrock and soil water content. Stepwise regression was used to explain spatial variability in terms of t...

the study was carried out to investigate the effective soil and topographic features on distribution of plant types in sanib taftan watershed in sistan-and-balouchestan province, iran. initially, land units map was specified by combining three maps of slope, aspect and altitude. five types including artemisia santolina- hammada salicornica, artemisia sieberi- amygdalus lycioides, artemisia lehm...

Department of Civil Engineering (DCE), seat of Topography and Photogrammetry – Pisa University, cooperating with Excellence Centre for Telegeomatics Research of the Trieste University, is developing several methods in order to evaluate road’s cross slope. This measure is performed by use of instrumentation integrated on MMS vehicle GIGI One. In particular two different approaches are followed. ...

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Topographic indices like the Topographic Wetness Index (TWI) have been used to predict spatial patterns of average groundwater levels and to model the dynamics of the saturated zone during events (e.g., TOPMODEL). However, the assumptions underlying the use of the TWI in hydrological models, of which the most important is that groundwater level variation can be approximated by a series of stead...

We have found that debris flows are the main process in forming two gullied crater slopes on Mars. We used 1 m/pix elevation models to derive three topographic indices: slope-area, CAD and DI-25. These indices allow the active slope processes to be identified by comparison to data from Earth analogues. We present data from Meteor Crater together with analogues previsouly presented by Conway et ...

In the deep Canada Basin, below the sill depth (about 2400 m) of the Alpha-Mendeleyev Ridge, potential temperature and salinity first increase with depth, then remain uniform from about 2600 m to the bottom (approximately 3500 m). Year-long moored measurements of temperature, salinity and pressure in these deep and homogeneous bottom waters reveal significant vertical excursions with periods of...

The topography of inland deltas is influenced by the water-sediment bal-3 ance in distributary channels and local evaporation and seepage rates. In this 4 letter a reduced complexity model is applied to simulate inland delta forma-5 tion, and results are compared with the Okavango Delta, Botswana and with 6 a laboratory experiment. We show that water loss in inland deltas produces 7 fundamental...