In this paper, we present a simple and efficient method to represent terrains as elevation functions built from linear combinations of landform features (atoms). These features can be extracted either from real world data-sets or procedural primitives, or from any combination of multiple terrain models. Our approach consists in representing the elevation function as a sparse combination of prim...

A large earthquake can trigger long lasting geotechnical problems, which pose serious issues on both rehabilitations and land conservations. Therefore one of what required of us is to deduce as much hidden signs as possible from observable changes of landforms. Though serious, damage caused by the October 23rd 2004, Mid-Niigata Prefecture Earthquake has given us a rare opportunity to study the ...

The long-term role of fire in coastal temperate rain forest is poorly understood. To determine the historical role of fire on western Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada), we constructed a long-term spatially explicit fire history and examined the spatial and temporal distribution of fire during the Holocene. Two fire-history parameters (time-since-fire [TSF] and fire extent) were relate...

Topographic attributes (TAs) play an important role in quantitatively describing the characteristics of landform and its structure. At present, TAs are classified from different views by many scientists being from various fields. However, there are still some urgent problems that need to be clarified about TAs. The relationships and differences of various TAs are not revealed and a mature, wide...

Characterization of soil water content (SWC) profiles at catchment scale has profound implications for understanding hydrological processes of the terrestrial water cycle, thereby contributing to sustainable water management and ecological restoration in arid and semi-arid regions. This study described the vertical profiles of SWC at the small catchment scale on the hilly and gully Loess Platea...

Age–elevation relationships have been used widely to constrain the rate of rock exhumation in a range of tectonic environments (Wagner et al., 1977; Morley et al., 1980; Benjamin et al., 1987; Gleadow and Fitzgerald, 1987; House et al., 1997; Batt et al., 2000). In order to avoid complications arising from the thermal perturbation caused by finite-amplitude surface topography (Stüwe et al., 199...

â â â  chele basin is located in zagros mountains and the border between kermanshah and ilam. seems young geomorphological landforms in the region, are as a result of quaternary neotectonic activities . the purpose of this study is assessment of young morphotectonic movements influence on landform evolution in the chele basin øŒ and comparing the result with the tentative indices and geomorphic...