[appgema] Updatings

Wed Dec 5 03:29:21 EST 2007

Dear all,

Few updates on the Working Group activities and on AppGeMa.org web-site.

As most of you are aware of we are still having talks with a  Publisher for
the Professional Handbook. As soon as there will be some concrete
advancement  we will be back to you with detailed information.

The next important European meeting on Geomorphology will be held in Wien in
April. Is som eof you plannig of attending it? It could be nice to have an
AppGeMa informal meeting there among the ones going there.

Next year is the International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE) and it could be a
great opportunity if we could speed up AppGeMa activities in order to see
the draft version of some of the foreseen outputs. 

For this reason I would like to kindly demand for your cooperation. 

A draft and partial version of the Glossary will be out for discussion among
members soon (early next year): we then will need the input of all the
interested members on it. 

It would be also a great opportunity to compile and print an edited
reference collection of papers and book chapters on Geomorphological
mapping. For this aim a good starting point is the reference database posted
on www.appgema.org <http://www.appgema.org/>   

Regarding the web site: we have updated the list of members (now reaching
the number of 69); there is a quite big reference list; there are some new
interesting links to research experiences in the field of landform mapping
under Technical; there is a very interesting and numerous list of new
references posted by Colin Pain. Briefly it will be added to the EndNote
file and its pdf version downloadable from the website.

Finally I would like to submit to your attention some papers, some recent
some less, related to geomorphological mapping that were not in the
reference database so far. You will find the same list in the web site soon:

Barsch, D. and R. Mausbacher (1979). "Geomorphological and ecological
mapping." GeoJournal 3.4: 361-370.

Deng, Y. (2007). "New trends in digital terrain analysis: landform
definition, representation, and classification." Progress in Physical
Geography 31(4): 405-419.

Florinsky, I. V. (1998). "Combined analysis of digital terrain models and
remotely sensed dat ain landscape investigations." Progress in Physical
Geography 22(1): 33-60.

Gustavsson, M., A. C. Seijmonsbergen, et al. (2007). "Structure and contents
of a new geomorphological GIS database linked to a geomorphological map -
With an example from Liden, Central Sweden." Geomorphology in press.

Iwahashi, J. and R. J. Pike (2007). "Automated classification of topography
from DEMs by an unsupervised nested-means algorithm and a three-part
geometric signature." Geomorphology 86: 409-440.

Jones, A. F., P. A. Brewer, et al. (2007). "High-resolution interpretative
geomorphological mapping of river valley environments using airborne LiDAR
data." Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 32: 1574-1592.

King, L. (1968). Geomorphic Maps. Encyclopedia of Geomorphology. Fairbridge,
Elsevier: 388-404.

Miznar, J. and I. S. Evans (2007). "Elementary forms for land surface
segmentation: the theoretical basis of terrain analysis and geomorphological
mapping." Geomorphology in press.

Mucher, C. A., D. M. Wascher, et al. (2006). A new European Landscape Map as
an integrative framework for landscape character assessment. Landscape
Ecology in the Mediterranean: inside and outside approaches. R. G. H.
Bunceand and R. H. G. Jongman. Faro, POrtugal. Proceedings of the European
IALE Conference 29 March-2 April 2005: 233-243.

Otto, J.-C., K. Klenoid, et al. (2007). "HRSC-A data: a new high-resolution
data set with multipurpose applications in physical geography." Progress in
Physical Geography 31(2): 179-197.

Panizza, M. (1972). "Schema di legenda per cqrte geomorpfologiche di
dettaglio." Bollettino Società Geologica Italiana 91: 207-237.

Reuter, H. I., O. Wendroth, et al. (2006). "Optimisation of relef
classification for different levels of generalisation." Geomorphology 77:
79-89.

Wascher, D. M. (2005). European Landscape Character Areas - Typologies,
Cartography and Indicators for the Assessment of Sustainable Landscapes.
Final Project Report. Wageningen, Alterra: 150.

Wielemaker, W. G., S. de Bruin, et al. (2001). "Significance and application
of the multi-hierarchical landsystem in soil mapping." Catena 43.

Zonnenveld, I. S. (1989). "The land unit - a fundamental concept in
landscape ecology and its applications." Landscape Ecology 3(2): 67-86.

Wishing you all the best and an Happy Christmas and Happy New Year.

Paolo

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