Digital Terrain Modelling Development and Applications in a Policy S
This book presents a set of papers on Digital Terrain Modelling for Policy Support which aims to be informative and stimulating for both developers and users of digital terrain models. It should also be useful for professi- als who are interested in the w
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Robert J. Peckham • Gyozo Jordan (Eds.)
Digital Terrain Modelling Development and Applications in a Policy Support Environment
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Editors: Dr. Robert Joseph Peckham 4 Rossie Lodge Dores Road Inverness IV2 4HB U.K. E-mail: [email protected] Dr. Gyozo Jordan Geological Institute of Hungary (MAFI) Stefania ut 14 Budapest 1143 Hungary E-mail: [email protected]
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Preface
This book presents a set of papers on Digital Terrain Modelling for Policy Support which aims to be informative and stimulating for both developers and users of digital terrain models. It should also be useful for professionals who are interested in the wider aspects of the applications of terrain models in support for policies and decision making. There is an increasing demand for regional and continental scale data for use in environmental modelling and spatial analysis to support environmental policy development and implementation. Important environmental processes act at regional and continental scales, for example climatic change inducing floods and soil erosion, and management of these processes for the sustainable development of society requires policies to be applied at the corresponding scales. One of the most important factors influencing these environmental processes which act on the earth’s surface is the surface topography, hence the need for extensive, harmonised digital terrain models. Despite the steadily increasing literature on the developing field of digital terrain modelling, there is a lack of information about their regional and policy applications. Some reasons for this are that, on one hand, policies are only recently being developed for the regional and continental scales, and are still largely limited to developed parts of the world an
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