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186: 174: 1470: 147: 50: 685: 471:. The relief of a landscape can change with the size of the area over which it is measured, making the definition of the scale over which it is measured very important. Because it is related to the slope of surfaces within the area of interest and to the 389:
is basic to both defensive and offensive strategy. The military usage of "terrain" is very broad, encompassing not only landform but land use and land cover, surface transport infrastructure, built structures and
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I. Balenovic, H. Marjanovic, D. Vuletic, etc. Quality assessment of high density digital surface model over different land cover classes. PERIODICUM BIOLOGORUM. VOL. 117, No 4, 459–470, 2015.
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Wobus, C.; Whipple, K.; Kirby, E.; Snyder, N.; Johnson, J.; Spyropolou, K.; Sheehan, D. (2006). "Tectonics from topography: Procedures, promise, and pitfalls. Special Paper".
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Gasparini, N.; Bras, R.; Whipple, K. (2006). "Numerical modeling of non–steady-state river profile evolution using a sediment-flux-dependent incision model. Special Paper".
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Hoth, S.; Adam, J.; Kukowski, N.; Oncken, O. (2006). "Influence of erosion on the kinematics of bivergent orogens: Results from scaled sandbox simulations. Special Paper".
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Dwevedi, Alka; Kumar, Promod; Kumar, Pravita; Kumar, Yogendra; Sharma, Yogesh K.; Kayastha, Arvind M. (January 1, 2017). Grumezescu, Alexandru Mihai (ed.).
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Geomorphology is in large part the study of the formation of terrain or topography. Terrain is formed by concurrent processes operating on the underlying
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Roe, G.; Stolar, D.; Willett, S. (2006). "Response of a steady-state critical wedge orogen to changes in climate and tectonic forcing. Special Paper".
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rarely (if ever) reaches equilibrium. These processes are also codependent, however the full range of their interactions is still a topic of debate.
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of any streams present, the relief of a landscape is a useful metric in the study of the Earth's surface. Relief energy, which may be defined
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Baker, N.T.; Capel, P.D. (2011). "Environmental factors that influence the location of crop agriculture in the conterminous United States".
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King, G.; Herman, F.; Guralnik, B. (2016). "Northward migration of the eastern himalayan syntaxis revealed by OSL thermochronometry".
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as "the maximum height range in a regular grid", is essentially an indication of the ruggedness or relative height of the terrain.
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on sloping land; it is the practice of ploughing along lines of equal elevation instead of up and down a slope.
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Stolar, D.; Willett, S.; Roe, G. (2006). "Climatic and tectonic forcing of a critical orogen. Special Paper".
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and other interdisciplinary sciences; understanding the terrain of an area assists the understanding of
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systems. Furthermore, a hilly or mountainous terrain can strongly impact the implementation of a new
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processes wear the land away by smoothing and reducing topographic features. The relationship of
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Drainage basins, channels, and flow characteristics of selected streams in central Pennsylvania
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critical because it determines the ability of armed forces to take and hold areas, and move
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The terrain of a region largely determines its suitability for human settlement: flatter
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and visualization applications, a DTM is often required for flood or drainage modeling,
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of a terrain or curvatures at each location. These measures can also be used to derive
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A shaded and colored image (i.e. terrain is enhanced) of varied terrain from the
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patterns. Two areas geographically close to each other may differ radically in
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properties of a surface. The most common examples are used to derive
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tend to have better farming soils than steeper, rockier uplands.
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data to represent terrain or overlaying objects, commonly of a
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Land surface parameters are quantitative measures of various
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The understanding of terrain is critical for many reasons:
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Vertical and horizontal dimension and shape of land surface
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Applications of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS)
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levels or timing because of elevation differences or a
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Land surface
Terrain (disambiguation)
Terrane

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Earth
altimetry
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TerrainBase Digital Terrain Model

Sierra Nevada

Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
elevation model
Alpine Fault
escarpment
fault
mountains
Southern Alps

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