[1] Models for the overall topographic evolution of erosional and depositional systems can be grouped into two broad classes. The first class is local models in which the sediment flux at a point is expressed as a linear or nonlinear function of local hydrogeomorphic measures (e.g., water discharge and slope). The second class is nonlocal models, where the sediment flux at a point is expressed ...

Hybrid poplars have demonstrated high productivity as short rotation woody crops (SRWCs) in the U.S. Midwest, and the hybrid aspen ‘Crandon’ (Populus alba L. × P. grandidenta Michx.) has exhibited particularly promising yields across topographic positions (including sloping marginal lands) in Iowa. However, a key obstacle for landowner acceptance of SRWCs is the lack of economic returns early i...

Coral walls protect vegetation gardens from strong winds that sweep across Xiji Island, Taiwan Strait for half the year. Topographic parameters based on light detection and ranging (LiDAR)-based high-resolution digital elevation model (DEM) provide obvious correspondence with the expected form of landscape features. The information on slope, curvature, and openness can help identify the locatio...

Most studies dealing with home ranges consider the study areas as if they were totally flat, working only in two dimensions, when in reality they are irregular surfaces displayed in three dimensions. By disregarding the third dimension (i.e., topography), the size of home ranges underestimates the surface actually occupied by the animal, potentially leading to misinterpretations of the animals'...

Roads and railways are founded on earthwork structures such as embankments, which can be susceptible to slope instability and failure, with serious economic and safety implications. Existing approaches to earthwork condition appraisal are labour-intensive and hazardous. While the increasing availability of high resolution geospatial data offers improved opportunities for remote and efficient sl...

With the rapid development of economy and electronic information industry, demand for electricity is getting higher. As a basic project, reasonable point layout power grid becoming more important. Topographic elements are key factors affecting layout. However, actual terrain complex changeable, so it urgent to quantify all kinds topographic provide reference Based on three-dimensional GIS techn...

Accurate information about organic/mineral soil occurrence is a prerequisite for many land resources management applications (including climate change mitigation). This paper aims at investigating the potential of using geomorphometrical analysis and decision tree modeling to predict the geographic distribution of hydromorphic organic landscapes in unsampled area in Denmark. Nine primary (eleva...