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Vania Mancinelli, Giorgio Paglia, Marco Emanuele Discenza, Mariacarmela Minnillo, Francesco Cerrone, Marzia Rizzo and Enrico Miccadei
This paper presents a morphometric and structural-geomorphological approach to identifying morphotectonic features across an area underlain by lithologies that do not easily record tectonic deformations but are widely affected by seismic activity. The mi...
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Norhafizi Mohamad, Anuar Ahmad, Mohd Faisal Abdul Khanan and Ami Hassan Md Din
Estimating surface elevation changes in mangrove forests requires a technique to filter the mangrove canopy and quantify the changes underneath. Hence, this study estimates surface elevation changes underneath the mangrove canopy through vegetation filte...
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Aggeliki Kyriou, Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos and Ioannis Koukouvelas
The detailed and accurate mapping of landscapes and their geomorphological characteristics is a key issue in hazard management. The current study examines whether the image acquisition geometry of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) campaigns affects the accur...
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Gianvito Teofilo, Dario Gioia and Luigi Spalluto
An integrated geomorphological and geospatial study was performed in order to map fluvial landforms in a sector of Lama Lamasinata close to the town of Binetto in the Murge Basse karst (metropolitan area of Bari, Apulia, Southern Italy). This study descr...
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María José González-Amuchastegui and Enrique Serrano
This study supports the usefulness of geomorphological mapping as a tool for gaining an understanding of the landscape and assessing natural heritage. Mapping provides an essentially scientific document with great potential for the diffusion of geomorpho...
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Ashraf Abdelkarim, Seham S. Al-Alola, Haya M. Alogayell, Soha A. Mohamed, Ibtesam I. Alkadi and Ismail Y. Youssef
Drainage basins in dry and semiarid environments are exposed to sudden, irregular flooding that poses a threat to urban areas and infrastructure. The associated risk is exacerbated by land use changes. Geomorphometric analyses of drainage basins based on...
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Anna Gehrmann and Chris Harding
Glacitectonic deformation in the Upper Weichselian led to the tectonic framework of large-scale folds and displaced thrust sheets of Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) chalk and Pleistocene glacial deposits in the southwestern Baltic Sea region. They form ...
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Francesco Mascioli, Valerio Piattelli, Francesco Cerrone, Davide Gasprino, Tina Kunde and Enrico Miccadei
The growing interest in monitoring the marine environment has strongly encouraged governmental agencies and research institutes to undertake seabed mapping programs and stimulated scientific interest in innovative mapping methods and tools. In this study...
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Chiara Martinello, Chiara Cappadonia and Edoardo Rotigliano
Optimally sizing grid cells is a relevant research issue in landslide susceptibility evaluation. In fact, the size of the adopted mapping units influences several aspects spanning from statistical (the number of positive/negative cases and prevalence and...
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Marco Luppichini, Valerio Noti, Danilo Pavone, Marzia Bonato, Francesco Ghizzani Marcìa, Stefano Genovesi, Francesca Lemmi, Lisa Rosselli, Neva Chiarenza, Marta Colombo, Giulia Picchi, Andrea Fontanelli and Monica Bini
The Versilia plain (NW Italy) experiences forms of tourism that are mainly limited to the beach area and concentrated in the summer season. The area is rich in cultural and natural heritage, not yet adequately enhanced. The presence of four local archaeo...
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Niki Evelpidou, Alexandros Petropoulos, Anna Karkani and Giannis Saitis
Coastal lagoons and dunes are of great ecological importance, not only for providing habitats for rare flora and fauna, but also for protecting coastal areas from rising sea levels and storms, etc. Even though these features are unique for sustainable de...
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Nadeem Fareed and Chi-Kuei Wang
High-resolution digital elevation models (HR-DEMs) originating from airborne laser scanning (ALS) point clouds must be transformed into Culvert-modified DEMs for hydrological and geomorphological analysis. To produce a culvert-modified DEM, information o...
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Nimisha Wagle and Tri Dev Acharya
Topographic Base Maps (TBMs) are those maps that portray ground relief as the form of contour lines and show planimetric details. Various other maps like geomorphological maps, contour maps, and land use planning maps are derived from topographical maps....
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Meisam Moharrami, Amin Naboureh, Thimmaiah Gudiyangada Nachappa, Omid Ghorbanzadeh, Xudong Guan and Thomas Blaschke
Landslides are one of the most detrimental geological disasters that intimidate human lives along with severe damages to infrastructures and they mostly occur in the mountainous regions across the globe. Landslide susceptibility mapping (LSM) serves as a...
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Katarína Pukanská, Karol Barto?, Pavel Bella, Juraj Ga?inec, Peter Blistan and Ludovít Kovanic
The Ochtiná Aragonite Cave (Slovakia, Central Europe) is a world-famous karst phenomenon of significant geological, geomorphological, and mineralogical values. Its specific origin is determined by particular lithological and hydrogeological conditions of...
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John B. Lindsay, Daniel R. Newman and Anthony Francioni
Surface roughness is a terrain parameter that has been widely applied to the study of geomorphological processes. One of the main challenges in studying roughness is its highly scale-dependent nature. Determining appropriate mapping scales in topographic...
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Anna Karkani, Niki Evelpidou, Giannis Saitis, Konstantinos Tsanakas, Hara Drinia, Emmanuel Vassilakis, Efthimios Karymbalis and Dimitrios-Vasileios Batzakis
Geomorphological and sedimentological indicators are often used to reconstruct not only coastal evolution, but also relative sea level changes. In this work, we studied the coastal sediments of Psatha bay (Alkyonides Gulf, Greece) and beachrock outcrops ...
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Dario Gioia, Maria Danese, Giuseppe Corrado, Paola Di Leo, Antonio Minervino Amodio and Marcello Schiattarella
Automatic procedures for landform extraction is a growing research field but extensive quantitative studies of the prediction accuracy of Automatic Landform Classification (ACL) based on a direct comparison with geomorphological maps are rather limited. ...
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Kanella Valkanou, Efthimios Karymbalis, Dimitris Papanastassiou, Mauro Soldati, Christos Chalkias and Kalliopi Gaki-Papanastassiou
This study deals with the assessment and mapping of neotectonic landscape deformation in the northern part of the Evia Island (Central Greece). Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) utilizing Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Weighted Linear Combina...
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Monia Calista, Valeria Menna, Vania Mancinelli, Nicola Sciarra and Enrico Miccadei
The purpose of this research is to estimate the rockfall and debris flow hazard assessment of the SW escarpment of the Montagna del Morrone (Abruzzo, Central Italy). The study investigated the geomorphology of the escarpment, focusing on the type and dis...
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