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Review article
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06 Sep 2016
Review article |
| 06 Sep 2016
Frontiers in Geomorphometry and Earth Surface Dynamics: possibilities, limitations and perspectives
Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University
of Padova, 35020, Legnaro (PD), Italy
John K. Hillier
Department of Geography, Loughborough University, Loughborough,
LE11 3TU, UK
Susan J. Conway
Department of Physical Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes,
MK7 6AA, UK
Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique – UMR CNRS 6112,
2 rue de la Houssinière – BP 92208, 44322 Nantes CEDEX 3, France
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Short summary
The interdisciplinarity of geomorphometry is its greatest strength and one of its major challenges. This special issue showcases exciting developments that are the building blocks for the next step-change in the field. In reading and compiling the contributions we hope that the scientific community will be inspired to seek out collaborations and share ideas across subject-boundaries, between technique-developers and users, enabling us as a community to gather knowledge from our digital landscape
The interdisciplinarity of geomorphometry is its greatest strength and one of its major...
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