In this article, we investigate the potential for detection and characterization of sinkholes under dense forest cover by using airborne laser scanning data. Laser pulse returns from the ground provide important data for the estimation of digital elevation model (DEM), which can be used for further processing. The main objectives of this study were to map and determine the geomorphometric chara...

13 This contribution illustrates the advantages of integrating conventional 14 geomorphological methods with InSAR, ground penetrating radar and trenching for 15 sinkhole mapping and characterization in a mantled evaporite karst area, where a 16 significant proportion of the karstic depressions have been obliterated by artificial fills. 17 The main practical aim of the investigation was to eluc...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between the plant distribution and the altitude-shape-size characteristics of sinkholes, and the landform characteristics inside sinkholes in the Mediterranean region of Turkey. Block kriging, Factor analysis, Cluster Analysis and Detrended Correspondence Analysis were performed. The sinkhole type and altitudinal zone were found to ...

Florida is riddled with sinkholes due to its karst topography. Sometimes these sinkholes can cause extensive damage to infrastructure and homes. It has been suggested that agricultural practices, such as sprinkler irrigation methods used to protect crops, can increase the development of sinkholes, particularly when temperatures drop below freezing, causing groundwater levels to drop quickly dur...

O ver the last 25 years, a series of studies has investigated the diurnal formation and destruction cycle of temperature inversions in valleys and basins (for a review see, e.g., Whiteman 1990). In most of the valleys and basins that have been studied to date, advective influences produced by the well-known, diurnally reversing upand down-valley wind systems have greatly complicated the analyse...

Spatiotemporal deformation of existing sinkholes and the surrounding region in Wink, TX are probed using time-series interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) methods with radar images acquired from the Sentinel-1A satellite launched in April 2014. The two-dimensional deformation maps, calculated using InSAR observations from ascending and descending tracks, reveal that much of the obser...

Cave entrances directly connect the surface and subsurface geomorphology in karst landscapes. Understanding spatial distribution of these features can help identify areas on landscape that are critical to flow groundwater system. Sinkholes springs major locations inflow outflow from system, respectively, however not all sinkholes equally connected main conduit Predicting where zones high connec...