Rapid development of the economy increased marine litter around Zhoushan Island. Social-ecological scenario studies can help to develop strategies adapt such change. To investigate present situation pollution, a stratified random sampling (StRS) method was applied survey distribution coastal litters A univariate analysis variance conducted access amount in different landforms that include mudfl...

This paper introduces a new open source, knowledge-based framework for automatic interpretation of remote sensing images, called InterIMAGE. This framework owns a flexible modular architecture, in which image processing operators can be associated to both root and leaf nodes of the semantic network, which constitutes a differential strategy in comparison to other object-based image analysis pla...

Introduction: The geology of Terby Crater (28S, 287W), located on the northern rim of Hellas impact basin on Mars, is documented through geomorphic and stratigraphic analyses using all currently released visible and thermal infrared image data and topographic information. This large (D=164km), Noachian-aged [1] crater has a suite of geomorphic units [2] and landforms including massive troughs a...

Geomorphological landforms are generally viewed as Boolean objects. However, recent studies have shown that landforms are more suitable to be viewed as fuzzy objects, whereby a landform is defined as a region in the continuum of variation of the surface of the earth. In this paper, the fuzzy classification of physiographic features extracted from multiscale DEMs is performed. First, the lifting...

Ethnophysiography is a new term coined by the authors to refer to an ethnoscience of landforms. Ethnophysiography seeks to document and compare terms used in various languages and cultures to refer to the natural landscape and its parts, and the meanings of those terms. Ethnophysiography is an important part of efforts to construct ontologies of the geographic domain because the categories of l...

sarygamesh basin one of the bulhary chay tributary take place in moghan plain, northeastern azarbyjan area in iran and south edge of kora- araz zone. aims of this research are study specificities and geomorphic evolution of sarygamesh basin, survey rivers work on structure and geologic formation, and corresponding hydrographic with earth structure. toward above aim is used to litologic, structu...

The “Danxia landform” is an erosional landform type originally defined in China. It is characterized by redcolored sandstones and steep cliffs, and developed via long-term erosion. Detailed quantitative geomorphometric studies of the characteristics of Danxia landforms in China have not yet been conducted. Using GIS, we conducted DEM-based geomorphometric analyses of 42 watersheds on Mt. Danxia...

Sedimentary rocks are the archives of environmental conditions and ancient planetary surface processes that led to their formation. Reconstructions of Earth's past surface behaviour from the physical sedimentary record remain controversial, however, in part because we lack a quantitative framework to deconvolve internal dynamics of sediment-transport systems from environmental signal preservati...

[1] We analyze Surface Stereo Imager observations of rocks, sediments, and permafrost-related landforms in the vicinity of the Phoenix lander, comparing the imaged features to analogous examples of physical weathering and periglacial processes observed in the Antarctic Dry Valleys. Observations at the Phoenix landing site of pitted rocks, ‘‘puzzle rocks’’ undergoing in-situ breakdown, perched c...

The interaction of geomorphic and ecologic landscape components has been largely conceptualized as independent. In one direction, geomorphic processes and landforms shape the distribution of biota. Conversely, in the other direction, biota modify geomorphic processes and landforms. Increasingly, the interactions between geomorphic and ecological components are more circular and developmentally ...