Knowledge of geomorphological processes, their dynamics, and resulting landforms shaped decades of this geoscientific field. The recent advances in technologies for the acquisition of spatial data have brought fundamental changes in increasing the accuracy and frequency of evaluating the rate of geomorphological processes. Digitization, miniaturization, and portability accompany the ever-increasing volumes of data, which are becoming more and more accessible to research groups. The classic remote sensing techniques were completed with images of centimetric accuracy taken from the low atmosphere (such as LiDAR Scanning Systems or UAV-based images), from the water column in the marine or lake contexts (such as Autonomous Underwater Vehicle or Multibeam Echosounder), or the ground. These were doubled by the increase in temporal resolution, which, along with the generalization of open-source software, allowed the development of spatial modeling of geomorphological processes in all physiographic environments of the Globe: from intertropical to temperate, periglacial, or glacial.
The achievements of High-Resolution Topography (HRT) have constantly increased the fields of geomorphologic applications, with notable results in the assessment of water resources, soil and wind erosion, ecosystems management and conservation, and assessment of the anthropogenic impact on landforms or evaluation of risks induced by natural hazards. In this way, geomorphology registers a beneficial change, with remarkable applications in the quantification of process rates, 3D visualizations, and more precise modeling, which are translated into an increasingly recognized social impact and soundness of this geoscientific field.
Reviews, original research, short communication, and perspective manuscripts are welcome in this collection. Inter- and multidisciplinary research with different methods are especially encouraged.
We welcome manuscripts on the following, but not limited to subjects:
• New technologies in high-resolution spatial data acquisition;
• Landforms monitoring and the assessment of geomorphologic process rates;
• Applications of HRT in marine, fluvial, slope, aeolian, coastal, and glacial geosystems;
• Applications of HRT in different physiographic and climatic settings;
• Using HRT in soil erosion and hydrologic modeling;
• Applications of HRT in the field of natural hazards and derived risks.
Knowledge of geomorphological processes, their dynamics, and resulting landforms shaped decades of this geoscientific field. The recent advances in technologies for the acquisition of spatial data have brought fundamental changes in increasing the accuracy and frequency of evaluating the rate of geomorphological processes. Digitization, miniaturization, and portability accompany the ever-increasing volumes of data, which are becoming more and more accessible to research groups. The classic remote sensing techniques were completed with images of centimetric accuracy taken from the low atmosphere (such as LiDAR Scanning Systems or UAV-based images), from the water column in the marine or lake contexts (such as Autonomous Underwater Vehicle or Multibeam Echosounder), or the ground. These were doubled by the increase in temporal resolution, which, along with the generalization of open-source software, allowed the development of spatial modeling of geomorphological processes in all physiographic environments of the Globe: from intertropical to temperate, periglacial, or glacial.
The achievements of High-Resolution Topography (HRT) have constantly increased the fields of geomorphologic applications, with notable results in the assessment of water resources, soil and wind erosion, ecosystems management and conservation, and assessment of the anthropogenic impact on landforms or evaluation of risks induced by natural hazards. In this way, geomorphology registers a beneficial change, with remarkable applications in the quantification of process rates, 3D visualizations, and more precise modeling, which are translated into an increasingly recognized social impact and soundness of this geoscientific field.
Reviews, original research, short communication, and perspective manuscripts are welcome in this collection. Inter- and multidisciplinary research with different methods are especially encouraged.
We welcome manuscripts on the following, but not limited to subjects:
• New technologies in high-resolution spatial data acquisition;
• Landforms monitoring and the assessment of geomorphologic process rates;
• Applications of HRT in marine, fluvial, slope, aeolian, coastal, and glacial geosystems;
• Applications of HRT in different physiographic and climatic settings;
• Using HRT in soil erosion and hydrologic modeling;
• Applications of HRT in the field of natural hazards and derived risks.