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Digital Terrain Modelling

Development and Applications in a Policy Support Environment

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Robert Joseph Peckham

    1. Inverness, UK

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  2. Gyozo Jordan

    1. Geological Institute of Hungary (MAFI), Budapest, Hungary

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  • First book on the development and application of digital terrain modelling for regional planning and policy support

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography (LNGC)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
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  2. Digital Terrain Analysis in a GIS Environment. Concepts and Development

    • Gyozo Jordan
    Pages 1-43

  3. From Mathematical Morphology to Morphological Terrain Features

    • Pierre Soille
    Pages 45-66

  4. Optimisation of Interpolation Parameters Using Cross-validation

    • Jaroslav Hofierka, Tomáš Cebecauer, Marcel Šúri
    Pages 67-82

  5. Scale-Dependent Effect of Input Data Design on DEM Accuracy

    • Radoslav Bonk
    Pages 83-98

  6. SRTM as a Possible Source of Elevation Information for Soil-landscape Modelling

    • Borut Vrščaj, Joël Daroussin, Luca Montanarella
    Pages 99-120

  7. Development of a pan-European River and Catchment Database

    • Jürgen Vogt, Pierre Soille, Roberto Colombo, Maria Luisa Paracchini, Alfred de Jager
    Pages 121-144

  8. Decision Supporting Hydrological Model for River Basin Flood Control

    • János Adolf Szabó
    Pages 145-182

  9. Potential Flood Hazard and Risk Mapping at Pan-European Scale

    • Ad De Roo, Jose Barredo, Carlo Lavalle, Katalin Bodis, Rado Bonk
    Pages 183-202

  10. High-Resolution DEM for Design of Flood Emergency Reservoirs

    • Katalin Bódis
    Pages 203-226

  11. A Quantitative Procedure for Building Physiographic Units for the European SOTER Database

    • Endre Dobos, Joël Daroussin, Luca Montanarella
    Pages 227-258

  12. Solar Resource Modelling for Energy Applications

    • Marcel Šúri, Thomas Huld, Ewan D. Dunlop, Jaroslav Hofierka
    Pages 259-273

  13. GRASS and R — Advanced GIS and Statistical Tools for DEM Analysis

    • Radoslav Bonk
    Pages 275-282

  14. Calculation of Potential Drainage Density Index (PDD)

    • Endre Dobos, Joël Daroussin
    Pages 283-295

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 297-313
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About this book

This book presents a set of papers on Digital Terrain Modelling for Policy Support which aims to be informative and stimulating for both developers and users of digital terrain models. It should also be useful for professi- als who are interested in the wider aspects of the applications of terrain models in support for policies and decision making. There is an increasing demand for regional and continental scale data for use in environmental modelling and spatial analysis to support envir- mental policy development and implementation. Important environmental processes act at regional and continental scales, for example climatic change inducing floods and soil erosion, and management of these pr- esses for the sustainable development of society requires policies to be - plied at the corresponding scales. One of the most important factors inf- encing these environmental processes which act on the earth’s surface is the surface topography, hence the need for extensive, harmonised digital terrain models.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Inverness, UK

    Robert Joseph Peckham

  • Geological Institute of Hungary (MAFI), Budapest, Hungary

    Gyozo Jordan

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