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This reference landform ontology is intended to guide automated delineation of landforms from digital elevation models (DEMs) and semantic information retrieval about landforms. Since only form related information is available from DEMs, the categories of this reference ontology are defined based only on morphological criteria. The choice of the landform categories is informed by ethnophysiographic and spatial cognition research. The proposed taxonomy is work in progress and reflects the current focus on automated delineation and mapping of depression landforms (e.g., basins, valleys and canyons).
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Sinha, G. et al. (2018). A Reference Landform Ontology for Automated Delineation of Depression Landforms from DEMs. In: Fogliaroni, P., Ballatore, A., Clementini, E. (eds) Proceedings of Workshops and Posters at the 13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2017). COSIT 2017. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63946-8_23
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