Key Features
- Growth of interest in geomorphological mapping and currently no texts comprehensively cover this topic
- Extensive case studies that will appeal to professionals, academics and students (with extensive use of diagrams, potentially colour plates)
- Brings together material on digital mapping (GIS and remote sensing), cartography and data sources with a focus on modern technologies (including GIS, remote sensing and digital terrain analysis)
- Provides readers with summaries of current advances in methodological/technical aspects
- Accompanied by electronic resources for digital mapping
Description
Geomorphological Mapping: a professional handbook of techniques and applications is a new book targeted at academics and practitioners who use, or wish to utilise, geomorphological mapping within their work. Synthesising for the first time an historical perspective to geomorphological mapping, field based and digital tools and techniques for mapping and an extensive array of case studies from academics and professionals active in the area. Those active in geomorphology, engineering geology, reinsurance, Environmental Impact Assessors, and allied areas, will find the text of immense value.
Readership
Researchers and professionals in geomorphology, engineering geologists and applied geology
Geomorphological Mapping, 1st Edition
Section 1 - Geomorphological Mapping
1. Introduction to Applied Geomorphological Mapping
2. Old and New Trends in Geomorphological and Landform Mapping
3. Nature and Aims of Geomorphological Mapping
4. Makers and Users of Geomorphological Maps
5. Geomorphological Contributions to Landslide Risk Assessment: Theory and Practice
Section 2 - Techniques in Applied Geomorphological Mapping
6. Geomorphological Field Mapping
7. Data Sources
8. Digital Mapping: Visualisation, Iinterpretation and Quantification of Landforms
9. Cartography: Design, Symbolisation and Visualisation of Geomorphological Maps
10. Semi-Automated Identification and Extraction of Geomorphological Features using Digital Elevation Data
Section 3 - Case Studies
11. Mapping Ireland’s Glaciated Continental Margin Using Marine Geophysical Data
12. Submarine Geomorphology: Quantitative Methods Illustrated with the Hawaiian Volcanoes
13. Marine Geomorphology: Geomorphological Mapping and the Study of Submarine Landslides
14. The Cherry Garden Landslide, Etchinghill Escarpment, Southeast England.
15. The Application of Geomorphological Mapping in the Assessment of Landslide Risk in Hong Kong
16. A Geomorphological Map as a Tool for Assessing Sediment Transfer Processes in Small Catchments Prone to Debris-Flows Occurrence: A Case Study in the Bruchi Torrent (Swiss Alps)
17. Geomorphological Assessment of Complex Landslide Systems Using Field Reconnaissance and Terrestrial Laser Scanning
18. Digital Terrain Models From Airborne Laser Scanning for the Extraction of Natural and Anthropogenic Linear Structures
19. Applied Geomorphic Mapping for Land Management in the River Murray Corridor, SE Australia
20. Monitoring Braided River Change Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Optical Bathymeric Mapping
21. Uses and Limitations of Field-Mapping of Lowland Glaciated Landscapes
22. Mapping Late-Holocene Landscape Evolution and Human Impact - A Case-Study from Lower Khuzestan (SW Iran)
23. Military Applied Geomorphological Mapping: Normandy Case Study
24. Future Developments of Geomorphological Mapping
