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Mathematical morphology in geomorphology and GISci /

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This title discusses the retrieval, analysis, modelling, and simulation of spatial phenomena of terrestrial importance. It presents applications of mathematical morphology to address quantitative morphologic and scaling analyses of certain geophysically relevant functions, sets, and skeletons.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Daya Sagar, B. S.
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Geomorphology > Mathematical models.
Géomorphologie > Modèles mathématiques.
Geomorphology > Mathematical models
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Mathematical morphology : an introduction
  • 3. Simulated, realistic digital elevation models, digital bathymetric maps, remotely sensed data, and thematic maps
  • 4. Feature extraction
  • 5. Terrestrial surface characterization : a quantitative perspective
  • 6. Size distributions, spatial heterogeneity, and scaling laws
  • 7. Morphological shape decomposition : scale-invariant but shape-dependent measures
  • 8. Granulometries, convexity measures, and geodesic spectrum for DEM analyses
  • 9. Synthetic examples to understand spatiotemporal dynamics of certain geo(morpho)logical processes
  • 10. Quantitative spatial relationships and spatial reasoning
  • 11. Derivation of spatially significant zones from a cluster
  • 12. Directional spatial relationship
  • 13. "Between" space
  • 14. Spatial interpolations.