Geomorphometry 2018

August 13–17, 2018 | Boulder CO, USA

5th International Conference of the ISG

Registration costs: $595 (regular), $295 (students / ODA countries)

Workshops: $125 (regular), $45 (students / ODA countries)

Abstract submissions

Thank you for your interest in Geomorphometry. We got about 50 submissions for oral talks and/or poster presentations. Please use EasyChair system to follow your submitted abstract. All abstracts need to be submitted following the manuscript preparation guidelines.

Geomorphometry.org/2018 conference will be held at the Millenium Harvest Hotel in Boulder Colorado. Conference organizers have pre-booked number of rooms for the participants. During the hotel reservation, make sure you indicate "1808GEOMOR" so you can receive a discounted price for accommodation.

  • Millenium Harvest Hotel | 1345 28th Street, Boulder, CO 80302 United States

Organizing Committee:

To receive updates please register for the EasyChair system. All abstracts will go through a rapid peer-review and will be ranked based on the average rating and relevance to the Conference themes. Abstract submissions are now closed.

International Society for Geomorphometry (ISG) is an international association of researchers and experts open for free exchange of knowledge and opinions about various aspects of DEM processing and digital relief analysis.

Geomorphometry flyer

Conference themes
and publications

Themes include but are not limited to:

  • Use of Digital Elevation, Terrain and Surface Models and Canopy Heigh Models in hydrological modeling and biogeography
  • Acquisition and processing of high resolution elevation data collected with LIDAR and photogrammetry (structure from motion)
  • Mapping and analyzing Earth surface at ultra-high resolutions using sUAS (small Unmanned Aerial Systems)
  • New algorithms and software for automated interpretation of digital elevation data
  • Modeling extreme processes and natural hazards on the Earth surface
  • Modeling and analyzing urban topography (3D cities) using lidar or photogrammetry data
  • Multi-scale automated mapping of Earth surface changes
  • Acquisition and analysis of bathymetry data
  • Working with continental-scale high resolution data
  • Simulating changes of the Earth surface relief
  • 3D and 4D dynamics of Earth surface

Peer reviewed proceedings will be published online, with DOIs. One or more special journal issues planned.

Example of a special issue for Geomorphometry 2015

Example of a special issue for Geomorphometry 2015

Important dates:

  • EasyChair system opens for submissions: 1 December 2017
  • Extended 4 page abstracts due to EasyChair: 1 February 2018 1 March 2018 15 March 2018
  • Workshop proposals due: 15 March 2018
  • Notification of acceptance and required revisions: 1 April 2018
  • Registration opens: 1 April 2018
  • Schedule finalized: 1 April 2018
  • Final camera-ready digital manuscripts due: 15 May 2018
  • Early registration deadline: 15 June 2018
  • Conference: August 13-17 2018

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Keynote speakers

David Tarboton, Professor at Utah State University

Web Based Hydrologic Terrain Analysis through HydroShare

David Tarboton

Dai Yamazaki, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo

MERIT DEM: a high-accuracy global elevation map by multi-component error removal

Dai Yamazaki

Greg Tucker, Professor of Geological Sciences and Fellow of CIRES / Director, Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System (CSDMS), University of Colorado, Boulder

Lidar meets Landlab: using digital topography to test and calibrate long-term erosion models

Greg Tucker

Working programme (PDF):

Monday, August 13th
08:45-09:00 Session 1: Conference Welcome
09:00-10:00 Session 2: Keynote by David Tarboton, Utah State: Web Based Hydrologic Terrain Analysis through HydroShare
10:00-11:40 Session 3A: Stream Networks
10:00-10:20   Giuseppe Amatulli, Sami Domisch, Jens Kiesel,  Tushar Sethi, Dai Yamazaki and Peter Raymond. High-resolution stream network delineation using digital elevation models: assessing the spatial accuracy
10:20-10:40 42 Scott D. Peckham. Using the Open-source TopoFlow Python Package for Extracting D8-based Grids from DEMs and for Fluvial Landscape Evolution Modeling
10:40-11:00 Qiming Zhou, Fangli Zhang and Liang Cheng. A Data-driven Method for the Determination of Water-flow Velocity in Watershed Modelling
11:00-11:20 Shangmin Zhao, Shifang Zhang and Weiming Cheng. Hydrologic application comparison among typical open global DEM data based on remote sensing images
11:20-11:40 43 Richard Barnes. RichDEM: High-Performance Terrain Analysis
10:00-17:00 Session 3B: Posters
10:00-10:00 Zhang Jin. Slope Ranking and geohazards correlation analysis for Combined Open-Underground Mining area
10:00-10:00 39 Xiaoli Huang and Liyang Xiong. Space-for-time substitution and the evolution of gully system in a small watershed of the Chinese Loess Plateau
10:00-10:00 18 Jiaming Na and Guoan Tang. Simulation on the Evolution of Loess Gullies and Landforms Based on Archaeological Remains Information
10:00-10:00 Jilong Li, Guoan Tang, Fayuan Li and Jianjun Cao. Delimitation of the western boundary of the erosion-active loess gully area in the Chinese Loess Plateau
11:40-12:40 Lunch
12:40-13:30 Session 4: Highlight Paper
12:40-13:00 John Wilson. Geomorphometry: Today and Tomorrow
13:10-14:50 Session 5: Data resolution and scale
13:10-13:30 Samantha Arundel, Wenwen Li and Xiran Zhou. The Effect of Resolution on Terrain Feature Extraction
13:30-13:50 Massimiliano Alvioli, Alessandro Cesare Mondini, Federica Fiorucci, Mauro Cardinali and Ivan Marchesini. Automatic landslide mapping from satellite imagery with a topography-driven thresholding algorithm
13:50-14:10 Flavius Sirbu, Lucian Dragut, Takashi Oguchi, Yuichi Hayakawa and Mihai Micu. Sensitivity of land-surface variables to scale in identifying landslide scarps
14:10-14:30 Adnane Habib, Kourosh Khoshelham, Nadia Akdim, Fatima-Ezzahra El Ghandour, Kamal Labbassi and Massimo Menenti. Enhancing DEMs for geomorphometric research through digital filtering
14:30-14:50 Peter Guth. What Should a Bare Earth Digital Terrain Model (DTM) Portray?
14:50-15:10  Break
15:10-16:10 Session 6: Planetary geomorphometry
15:10-15:30 17 Weiming Cheng. A preliminary study of classification method on lunar topography and landforms
15:30-15:50 Yan-Wen Wang, Cheng-Zhi Qin, Wei-Ming Cheng and A-Xing Zhu. Detecting craters by training random forest based on existing crater map and spatial structural information
15:50-16:10 Tao Liu and Victor Baker. Hydraulic Modeling of Megaflooding Using Terrestrial and Martian DEMs
16:10-17:10 Session 7: Discussion on non-profit status
Tuesday, August 14th
09:00-16:00 Field trip
Wednesday, August 15th
09:00-10:00 Session 8: Keynote by Dai Yamazaki, The University of Tokyo: MERIT DEM: a high-accuracy global elevation map by multi-component error removal
10:00-11:40 Session 9: Classification of topography
10:00-10:20 Jozef Minár, Peter Bandura, Lucian Drăguţ, Ian Evans, Michal Gallay, Jaroslav Hofierka, Juraj Holec, Ján Kaňuk and Anton Popov. Physically-based land surface segmentation: Theoretical background and outline of interpretations
10:20-10:40 Massimiliano Alvioli, Ivan Marchesini and Fausto Guzzetti. Nation-wide, general-purpose delineation of geomorphological slope units in Italy
10:40-11:00 Ovidiu Csillik and Lucian Dragut. Towards a global geomorphometric atlas using Google Earth Engine
11:00-11:20 Peter Bandura, Jozef Minár, Lucian Dragut and Miroslav Bielik. Physically-based segmentation of the Western Carpathians (Central Europe)
11:20-11:40 Junko Iwahashi, Takayuki Nakano and Dai Yamazaki. Classification of topography in artificially modified alluvial plains using DEMs
11:40-12:40 Lunch
12:40-13:30 Session 10: Highlight Paper
12:40-13:00 Vincent Lecours, Vanessa Lucieer, Margaret Dolan and Aaron Micallef. Recent and Future Trends in Marine Geomorphometry
13:00-14:20 Session 11: Accuracy and Error Propagation
13:00-13:20 Mehran Ghandehari and Barbara P. Buttenfield. Slope-Adjusted Surface Area Computations in Digital Terrain
13:20-13:40 Christopher Wecklich, Carolina Gonzalez and Paola Rizzoli. Height Accuracy and Data Coverage for the Final Global TanDEM-X DEM Data
13:40-14:00 Peter Bandura and Michal Gallay. Validation of TanDEM-X elevation data for a forested karst area in Slovakia (Central Europe)
14:00-14:20 Mihai Niculita. Assessing the accuracy of SRTM altitude data for the hilly area in northeastern Romania
14:30-14:50  Break
14:50-16:10 Session 12: Glacial and Marine Geomorphometry
14:50-15:10 Mihai Niculita and Ian Evans. Effects of glaciation on the clinometry and hypsometry of the Romanian Carpathians
15:10-15:30 Da Huo, Michael Bishop and Brennan Young. Geomorphometric assessment of glacier state in the Karakoram, Himalaya
15:30-15:50 Kwanmok Kim, Vincent Lecours and Peter C. Frederick. Using 3D Micro-Geomorphometry to Quantify Interstitial Spaces of an Oyster Cluster
15:50-16:10 Nathalie Debese, Jean-José Jacq, Koen Degrendele and Marc Roche. Toward Reliable Volumetric Monitoring of Sandbanks
16:10-17:10 Session 13: Roundtable
Thursday, August 16th
09:00-10:00 Session 14: Keynote by Greg Tucker, University of Colorado: Lidar meets Landlab: using digital topography to test and calibrate long-term erosion models
10:00-11:40 Session 15: DEM surfaces, lidar, and radar
10:00-10:20 Marián Jenčo. Detection of Degenerate Points on the Surface
10:20-10:40 John Lindsay and Daniel Newman. Hyper-scale analysis of surface roughness
10:40-11:00 Qiaomei Su, Chenyu Wang, Shangmin Zhao and Jianmin Wang. Study on fractal dimension of spatial distribution patterns for hidden danger points of geological hazards: taking Huoxi Coalfield of China as an example
11:00-11:20 Francis Rengers and Luke McGuire. Quantifying Hillslope Erosion with Lidar
11:20-11:40 Nicusor Necula, Mihai Niculita and Mario Floris. Sentinel-1 SAR data and PSI Differential Interferometry for quantifying Earth surface changes in neotectonic affected area of Foc?ani basin
11:40-12:40  Lunch
12:40-13:30 Session 16: Highlight Paper
12:40-13:00 Hannes Isaak Reuter. Geomorphometry--10 years after the book--challenges ahead ?
13:10-14:30 Session 17: UAV/SfM I
13:10-13:30 Igor Florinsky, Dmitrii Bliakharskii, Sergey Popov and Sergey Pryakhin. The 2017 Catastrophic Subsidence in the Dålk Glacier: Unmanned Aerial Survey and Digital Terrain Analysis
13:30-13:50 Michal Gallay,  Ján Šašak, Ján Kaňuk, Jozef Šupinský, Jaroslav Hofierka and Jozef Minár. High-resolution digital terrain modelling of a rugged alpine terrain by fusing data from terrestrial laser scanning and UAV photogrammetry
13:50-14:10 Carlos Grohmann, Camila Viana, Mariana Busarello and Guilherme Garcia. Structural analysis of clastic dikes based on Structure from Motion/Multi-View Stereo
14:10-14:30 Marek Kasprzak and Mariusz Szymanowski. Terrain determinants of permafrost active layer thermal conditions: a case study from Arctic non-glaciated catchment (Bratteggdalen, SW Spitsbergen)
14:30-14:50 Break
14:50-15:30 Session 18: UAV/SfM II
14:50-15:10 Alberto Alfonso-Torreño, Álvaro Gómez-Gutiérrez,  José Juan de Sanjosé Blasco and Manuel Sánchez Fernández.   Quantifying sediment volume retained in hydrological correction check dams by means of high-resolution DEMs in a semiarid rangeland of SW Spain
15:10-15:30 Álvaro Gómez-Gutiérrez, Trent Biggs, Napoleon Gudino Elizondo, Paz Errea, Esteban Alonso Gonzalez, Estela Nadal Romero and José Juan de Sanjosé Blasco. Elaborating more accurate high-resolution DEMs using SfM workflow
15:30-15:50 Session 19: Recent ESRI enhancements in geomorphometry
15:50-16:50 Session 20: Elections, Awards, and Geomorphometry 2020
Friday, August 17th
09:00-12:00 Workshop 21A: Using GDAL and PKTOOLS for Raster Operations
09:00-12:00 Workshop 21B: Processing Large Rasters using Tiling and Parallelization: An R + SAGA GIS + GRASS GIS Tutorial
09:00-12:00 Workshop 21C: A Hands-On Introduction to RiverTools 4.0
09:00-12:00 Workshop 21D: Google Earth Engine for large-scale DEM analysis
12:00-13:00 Lunch for Workshop participants
13:00-16:00 Workshop 22A: Using GDAL and PKTOOLS for Raster Operations Part 2
13:00-16:00 Workshop 22B: Processing Large Rasters using Tiling and Parallelization: An R + SAGA GIS + GRASS GIS Tutorial
13:00-16:00 Workshop 21D: A Hands-On Introduction to RiverTools 4.0
13:00-16:00 Workshop 22D: Google Earth Engine for large-scale DEM analysis

 

Workshops:

  • Using GDAL and PKTOOLS for Raster Operations | Lecturer: Giuseppe Amatulli, Yale

    • GDAL and PKTOOLS are powerful command line utilities mainly used for raster manipulation and analysis. In this workshop we will explain the main principle and philosophy about these tools by showing simple geodata processing for raster cropping and reprojection, image masking, spatial and temporal/spectral filtering as well as image classification. We will explain how to maximize computational implementation and process raster data more efficiently by building up routines that allow saving temporary raster outputs in RAM and use VRT files for tiling operations in a multicore environment. We expect basic command line knowledge (any language is fine) and a general familiarity with geospatial data processing. Participants should bring laptops with the latest OSGeo-Live virtual machine with PKTOOLS already installed.

  • Processing Large Rasters using Tiling and Parallelization: An R + SAGA GIS + GRASS GIS Tutorial | Lecturer: Tomislav Hengl, Envirometrix Ltd

    • This workshop will provide a gentle tutorial on how to implement complex computing using large DEM rasters including LiDAR point clouds, even using a laptop PC. Some of the topics that will be addressed include: converting polygon maps to rasters, downscaling or upscaling (aggregating) rasters to match the target resolution, filtering out missing pixels / reducing noise and multi-colinearity problems, and overlaying and subsetting raster stacks and points, derivation of complex DEM derivatives using tiling with overlap, automated classification of landforms using Machine Learning. For all analysis we will use the power of R and its packages for large data (data.table) and implicit and explicit parallelization (snowfall), newest releases of SAGA GIS (>2.3), GRASS GIS (>7.4) and gdal. The lecturer is an experienced R developer and has more than 10 years of experience with processing global (100 m resolution) DEMs for purpose of soil and vegetation mapping. The lecturer will provide all data and code via github and a local copy on USB stick. Using Linux 64bit OS is recommended but not a requirement.

  • A Hands-On Introduction to RiverTools 4.0 | Lecturer: Scott D. Peckham, CEO and Founder, RIVIX, LLC

    • The purpose of this workshop is to provide a hands-on introduction to RiverTools 4.0. This version includes 64-bit support for the latest versions of Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, a new graphics system, a streamlined graphical user interface and many other new capabilities. Attendees of this workshop will become familiar with the key features of RiverTools 4.0 by working through a set of tutorials. Workshop attendees will need to bring a laptop computer if they want to run the hands-on tutorials. If possible, the demo version of RiverTools 4.0 should be obtained from www.rivertools.com and installed on the laptop before the workshop. RiverTools 4.0 runs on Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10), Mac (OS X 10.5 +) and Linux (Ubuntu, Red Hat). The demo version includes all of the DEM data sets necessary to run the tutorials.

  • Google Earth Engine for large-scale DEM analysis | Lecturer: Ovidiu Csillik, Department of Geoinformatics – Z_GIS, University of Salzburg

    • Attempts towards a global geomorphometric atlas have been done in the past when computational power was less evolved than nowadays. In this study, we present a possible way to create a global geomorphometric atlas by taking advantage of the Google Earth Engine (GEE) computational capabilities. To exemplify how accessible, efficient and fast GEE works in geomorphometric analysis we globally derive popular land-surface variables (e.g. slope, aspect, multiple curvatures, and surface roughness) and perform a hierarchical pixel-based classification of topography on three levels of details. The scale of analysis can easily be adjusted to meet the user needs. Performing large-scale morphometric analysis with GEE has the potential to become an important milestone in Geomorphometry.

Registration costs for the workshops are: $125 (regular), $45 (students / ODA countries).