According to the perception that subjects have about geographic objects, people can evaluate their proximity. The answers to the question if a geographic object is near other will be different according to the environment that the objects belong to. Also, when we consider geographic objects that do not have well defined boundaries, the perceptions of people with respect to the distance will be ...

Geomorphological landforms are generally viewed as Boolean objects. However, recent studies have shown that landforms are more suitable to be viewed as fuzzy objects, whereby a landform is defined as a region in the continuum of variation of the surface of the earth. In this paper, the fuzzy classification of physiographic features extracted from multiscale DEMs is performed. First, the lifting...

The Méma is a semi-arid region in central Mali with a rich archaeological heritage indicating the former existence of large urban settlements. The archaeological data suggest millennia of occupation history of the Méma preceding relatively sudden abandonment by the 14th or 15th century AD. Population numbers have remained low since then and today’s human presence in the area is sparse and large...

As the largest service industry in the world, tourism plays a special role in sustainable development. Geomorphic tourism is known to be a segment of this industry with lower environmental impact and underlying causes that explain lower demand; therefore, it is essential to study, identify, assess, plan, and manage natural tourist attractions. As such, the present study assesses the ability of ...

A variety of predictive models is currently used to map the spatial distribution of earth surface processes and landforms. In this study, we tested statistical consensus methods in order to improve the predictive accuracy of geomorphological models. The distributions of 12 geomorphological formations were recorded at a resolution of 25ha in a sub-arctic landscape in northern Finland. Nine envir...

Prior to the current era of digital geomorphological mapping, global and regional-scale land surface characterization was advanced by qualitative interpretations that relied on human visualization aided disciplinary knowledge geophysical processes combined with extensive field study. In early twentieth century, Fenneman proposed devise systematic physiographic divisions United States in 1916 pr...

Detailed geomorphological mapping of ice-related and post-glacial landforms is widely used to explain past glacial fluctuations dynamics. Here we present the first detailed geomorpholog...

As the largest service industry in the world, tourism plays a special role in sustainable development. Geomorphic tourism is known to be a segment of this industry with lower environmental impact and underlying causes that explain lower demand; therefore, it is essential to study, identify, assess, plan, and manage natural tourist attractions. As such, the present study assesses the ability of ...

We present a large scale (1:10,000) geomorphological map of Favignana Island, in which landforms were recognized and genetically categorized based on analysis stereoscopic aerial photographs and...