Geos.820       Advanced Digital Terrain Modeling                             (3 C.H)

Course Objectives
The proposed course is aimed to enhance the capacity of the students with the applications of the digital terrain modeling. The students will learn the theory and will be trained using computer based exercises to develop their capacity of deriving advanced topographic information from the remote sensing based digital elevation models.

Course Contents

• Sources of Digital Elevation Model (DEM) generation
• Resolution and accuracy of DEM
• DEM generation from contour and point interpolation
• Remote sensing based DEMs
• Computation of secondary topographic attributes from DEMs
• Accuracy assessment of DEMs
• Evaluating impact of DEM resolution and accuracy on terrain representation
• Application of DEM for hydrology
• Natural Resource Management and Natural Hazard Management
• Displaying 3D maps; Generation of 3D animations.

Practical: Computer exercises to analyze DEMs, compute advanced topographic basic attributes and their interpretation.

Recommended Books:

• John, P.W. and John, C.G., 2002. Terrain Analysis: Principles and Applications, John Wiley and Sons, New York, USA.
• Qiming, Z., Brian, L. and Guoan T., 2008. Advances in Digital Terrain Analysis, Springer.
• Tomislav, H. and Hannes, I.R., 2009. Geomorphometry: Concepts, Software, Applications, Elsevier.
• Zhilin, L., Qing, Z. and Chris, G., 2005. Digital Terrain Modeling: Principles and Methodology.  CRC Press.