In recent years, various process-based models for the evolution of regional landform systems have been developed (Coulthard, 2001). Quantitative models have considerable use in applied geomorphology, but also represent a good means we have for testing and developing theoretical models. Nevertheless, there remains a considerable gap between the detailed quantitative representation of individual ...

Image scene recognition is a core technology for many aerial remote sensing applications. Different landforms are inputted as different scenes in aerial imaging, and all landform information is regarded as valuable for aerial image scene recognition. However, the conventional features of the Bag-of-Words model are designed using local points or other related information and thus are unable to f...

The traditional mapping on digital aerial photos and elevation models has its limits at steep slopes where the surface is only very sparsely sampled even in high resolution data sets. As a consequence, there is too few information available to perform a detailed mapping. In this paper we present a framework for augmenting terrain data with additional photos and show how to utilize this addition...

We introduce a novel method for classification and mapping of landforms based on the idea that the Earth’s surface can be described by the two complementary measures: relief-independent, local spatial pattern and the magnitude of the relief itself. The first of these two measures is sufficient to classify and map the landforms. At the core of the method is the concept of geomorphon (geomorpholo...

As a typical landform class of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, glacier is widely distributed in alpine terrain. However, field measurement is impossible in those areas because of complex terrain and adverse weather. At first, on the basis of analyzing the features of glacier image spectrum, object shape, spatial relations and environment distribution including terrain and climate, this paper combines ...

Landform classification, which is a key topic of geography, great significance to wide range fields including human construction, geological structure research, environmental governance, etc. Previous studies landform classification generally paid attention the topographic or texture information, whilst watershed spatial has not been used. This study developed new method based on geospatial str...

The “Danxia landform” is an erosional landform type originally defined in China. It is characterized by redcolored sandstones and steep cliffs, and developed via long-term erosion. Detailed quantitative geomorphometric studies of the characteristics of Danxia landforms in China have not yet been conducted. Using GIS, we conducted DEM-based geomorphometric analyses of 42 watersheds on Mt. Danxia...