These are approaches that is suitable for the study of geomorphology.
2006-10-06 22:44:37 · 4 answers · asked by bb_yusuf 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
Geomorphology (if you're wondering) is the study of changes, sudden or otherwise, in the physical landscape... i.e. a rock slide or the formation of a river delta by way of sediment deposition.
Modeling these phenomena refers to actually building a working model (say, a long pan full of sand and running a stream of water down it to see how it meanders) is a simpler way of studying them in a working scenario rather than trying to observe it or waiting for it to happen in real life.
2006-10-07 03:18:47 · answer #1 · answered by wreck_beach 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Geomorphometry is the science of quantitative land surface analysis. It gathers various mathematical, statistical and image processing techniques that can be used to quantify morphological, hydrological, ecological and other aspects of a land surface. Common synonyms for geomorphometry are geomorphological analysis, terrain morphometry or terrain analysis and land surface analysis. In simple terms, geomorphometry aims at extracting (land) surface parameters (morphometric, hydrological, climatic etc.) and objects (watersheds, stream networks, landforms etc.) using input digital land surface model (also known as digital elevation model) and parameterization software. Extracted surface parameters and objects can then be used, for example, to improve mapping and modelling of soils, vegetation, land use, geomorphological and geological features and similar.
Although geomorphometry started with ideas of Brisson (1808) and Gauss (1827), the field did not much evolved until the construction of the first DEM (Miller and Laflame, 1958). With the rapid increase of sources of DEMs today (and especially due to the Shuttle radar topographic mission and LIDAR-based projects), extraction of land surface parameters is becoming more and more attractive to numerous fields ranging from precision agriculture, soil-landscape modelling, climatic and hydrological applications to urban planning, education and space research. The topography of almost all Earth has been today sampled or scanned, so that DEMs are available at resolutions of 100 m or better at global scale. Land surface parameters are today successfully used for both stochastic and process-based modelling, the only remaining issue being the level of detail and vertical accuracy of the DEM.
You could get more information from the link below...
2006-10-07 10:27:40 · answer #2 · answered by catzpaw 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Geo = earth
morphological = shape or structure
Modelling = using maths , statistics, physics and computer
so its the study of earth structure and find out more information about these forms
2006-10-07 18:37:26 · answer #3 · answered by source_of_love_69 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.ocean.cf.ac.uk/people/neil/slopegeomorphology/index.html
Just Google/Yahoo it. What has taken you minutes of waiting for a reply, you could have found in a few seconds. Maybe you should study something with logic in it first of all.
2006-10-07 05:48:40 · answer #4 · answered by Raide UK 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋