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Geomorphometry is the science of quantitative terrain characterization and analysis, and has traditionally focused on the investigation of terrestrial and planetary landscapes. However, applications of marine geomorphometry have now moved beyond the simple adoption of techniques developed for terrestrial studies, driven by the rise in the acquisition of high-resolution seafloor data and by the availability of user-friendly spatial analytical tools. Considering that the seafloor represents 71% of the surface of our planet, this is an important step towards understanding the Earth in its entirety.This volume is the first one dedicated to marine applications of geomorphometry. It showcases studies addressing the five steps of geomorphometry: sampling a surface (e.g., the seafloor), generating a Digital Terrain Model (DTM) from samples, preprocessing the DTM for subsequent analyses (e.g., correcting for errors and artifacts), deriving terrain attributes and/or extracting terrain features from the DTM, and using and explaining those terrain attributes and features in a given context. Throughout these studies, authors address a range of challenges and issues associated with applying geomorphometric techniques to the complex marine environment, including issues related to spatial scale, data quality, and linking seafloor topography with physical, geological, biological, and ecological processes. As marine geomorphometry becomes increasingly recognized as a sub-discipline of geomorphometry, this volume brings together a collection of research articles that reflect the types of studies that are helping to chart the course for the future of marine geomorphometry.
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Keywords
- accuracy
- Acoustic applications
- acoustic-seismic profiling
- Alaska
- ArcGIS
- Atlantic Ocean
- automated-mapping
- Barents Sea
- bathymetry
- bedforms
- benthic habitat mapping
- benthic habitats
- Bering Sea
- Bonaparte Basin
- Canary Basin
- canyons
- carbonate banks
- carbonate mound
- Cenomanian–Turonian
- cold-water coral
- Confidence
- coral reefs
- Cretaceous
- currents
- deglaciation
- DEM
- digital elevation models (DEMs)
- digital terrain analysis
- domes
- eastern Brazilian shelf
- filter
- forage fish
- geographic object-based image analysis
- Geomorphology
- geomorphometry
- GIS
- Glaciated Margin
- global bathymetry
- habitat mapping
- image segmentation
- integration artefacts
- Malin Basin
- marine geology
- marine geomorphology
- marine remote sensing
- multi beam echosounder
- multibeam
- Multibeam bathymetry
- multibeam echosounder
- multibeam sonar
- multibeam spatial resolution
- multiscale
- Nippon Foundation/GEBCO
- North Sea
- Northwestern Australia
- object segmentation
- Oceanic Shoals Australian Marine Park
- Pacific sand lance
- paleobathymetry
- paleoceanography
- paleoclimate
- pockmarks
- polychaete
- Python
- random forest
- random forests
- Reconstruction
- Satellite Imagery
- Seabed 2030
- seabed mapping
- seafloor
- seafloor geomorphometry
- seafloor mapping standards and protocols
- seafloor mapping technologies
- sediment habitats
- sedimentation
- semi-automated mapping
- shelf morphology
- shelf-slope-rise
- simulation
- Spatial Analysis
- spatial prediction
- spatial scale
- submarine topography
- submerged glacial bedforms
- surface roughness
- swath geometry
- terrain analysis
- thalwegs
- Timor Sea
- Underwater acoustics
- Volcanoes
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DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-03897-955-5Editions
