Landform Analysis 

About: Landform Analysis is an academic journal published by Bogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Glacier & Glacial period. It has an ISSN identifier of 1429-799X. It is also open access. Over the lifetime, 458 publications have been published receiving 2028 citations. The journal is also known as: Landform Analysis & LA.

Challenges in gully erosion research

Abstract: Although the number of publications on gully erosion has increased over the last decade, there are still various as- pects of gully erosion that deserve more research efforts. Some of these, discussed in this contribution, are gully erosion in historical times, measuring techniques, processes of gully initiation, development and infilling, the interaction between gully erosion with hydrological and other soil degradation processes (e.g. piping, landsliding, tillage erosion and erosion induced by land levelling), gully erosion models, effective and efficient gully prevention and control measures. A better understand- ing of these aspects would allow one to better predict the impact of environmental change, gully prevention and control mea- sures on gully erosion and gully infilling rates at a range of temporal and spatial scales and for various types of environments, and the effects of gully erosion on sediment yield, hydrological process intensities and landscape evolution.

Geomorphology and global environmental change.

Abstract: Preface 1. Landscape, and landscape scale processes as the unfilled niche in the global environmental change debate: an introduction O. Slaymaker, T. Spencer and S. Dadson 2. Mountains O. Slaymaker and C. Embleton-Hamann 3. Lakes and lake catchments K. Kashiwaya, O. Slaymaker and M. Church 4. Rivers M. Church, T. P. Burt, V. J. Galay and G. M. Kondolf 5. Estuaries, coastal marshes, tidal flats and coastal dunes D. J. Reed, R. Davidson-Arnott and G. M. E. Perillo 6. Beaches, cliffs and deltas M. J. F. Stive, P. J. Cowell and R. J. Nicholls 7. Coral reefs P. Kench, C. Perry and T. Spencer 8. Tropical rainforests R. P. D. Walsh and W. H. Blake 9. Tropical savannas M. E. Meadows and D. S. G. Thomas 10. Deserts N. Lancaster 11. Mediterranean M. Sala 12. Temperate forests and rangelands R. C. Sidle and T. P. Burt 13. Tundra and permafrost dominated taiga M.-F. Andre and O. Anisimov 14. Ice sheets and ice caps D. Sugden 15. Landscape, landscape scale processes and global environmental change: synthesis and new agendas for the twenty-first century T. Spencer, O. Slaymaker and C. Embleton-Hamann Index.

The routine of landform geodiversity map design for the Polish Carpathian Mts.

Abstract: The main objective of this paper is to present a method for deriving a map of landform geodiversity in GIS environment Three maps: a map of landform energy derived from SRTM-3 digital elevation model, a map of landform fragmentation created from geomorphological map and a map of contemporary landform preservation derived from CORINE Land Cover database are processed for the construction of a map of landform geodiversity The paper presents a workflow for the map compilation procedure The final map of landform geodiversity is created in the course of spatial analysis in GIS in two steps: first three input maps are combined in an overlay and next the overlay results are reclassified into the map of landform geodiversity with the following descriptions: very high, high, medium, low, and very low landform geodiversity The study uses GIS to trace the patterns and changes of the natural landscapes and man-made transformations of natural landforms in the Polish Carpathians

How high - resolution DEM based on airborne LiDAR helped to reinterpret landforms : examples from the Sudetes, SW Poland

Abstract: The paper reviews recent advances in landform mapping and interpretation in the mountainous terrain of the Sudetes (SW Poland), possible due to the availability of high-resolution airborne LiDAR data. They are particularly useful in the recognition of minor landforms and their spatial patterns in the montane forest belt and in the dwarf pine zone in the most elevated parts of the Sudetes. The use of LiDAR data has allowed to both re-evaluate landforms known before, especially their extent and cross-relationships, as well as to discover surface features that have escaped attention before. The examples discussed include glacial and periglacial landforms in the Karkonosze, morphological signatures of mass movements in the Stołowe Mountains, fluvial features and morphotectonic analysis in the Izerskie Mountains. Although LiDAR immensely increases the scope for landform recognition and mapping, image interpretation should be verified in the field. Despite theoretical capability of LiDAR-derived models to show even landforms 1–2 m in length, 4–6 m seems the more realistic threshold size unless surface features are distinctly linear and continue over long distances.