Geomorphometry 2009 - Zürich, Switzerland

Foreword

On behalf of the organisers we would like to extend a warm welcome to all participants of Geomorphometry 2009 in Zurich. The Geomorphometry 2009 conference continues a series initiated by the Terrain Analysis and Digital Terrain Modelling conference hosted by Nanjing Normal University in November 2006.

Geomorphometry 2009 brings together researchers to present and discuss developments in the field of quantitative modelling and analysis of elevation data. Geomorphometry is the science of quantitative land-surface analysis and description at diverse spatial scales. It draws upon mathematical, statistical and image-processing techniques and interfaces with many disciplines including hydrology, geology, computational geometry, geomorphology, remote sensing, geographic information science and geography.

For the conference, a total of 53 extended abstracts, with authors from 21 countries were submitted for review by the programme committee. Of these, a total of 37 were accepted for presentation at the conference. We believe that the conference programme offers a rich and varied insight into the key themes in geomorphometry today, with a mix of leading researchers in the field presenting methodological advances and young researchers presenting high quality reviewed work to an international audience.

The conference also hosts three keynote speakers. We are delighted that Professor David Mark, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geography at the State University of New York at Buffalo and Dr Jo Wood, Reader in GIScience at the Department for Information Science at City University, London will both give presentations on how they have seen development progressing in Geomorphometry during their extensive experience of the field. Furthermore, Stephan Landtwing of BSF Swissphoto, a key producer of LIDAR and other remotely sensed data in Switzerland, will give an industrial keynote – an excellent opportunity for the conference attendees to interface with data producers and better understand issues related to key data sources in geomorphometry.

The conference also hosted two workshops with very different themes, entitled Automated analysis of elevation data in R+ILWIS/SAGA and Back to reality – Reconciling geomorphometry and geomorphology in the field respectively, providing attendees with the opportunity to get their hands dirty figuratively at the computer screen, and literally in the field!

Finally, we would like to thank all of those who make events such as this a success. Our programme committee, who on time and carefully reviewed a large number of papers, our keynote speakers, the workshop organisers, and all those who helped in the local organisation, especially Dagmar Brandova who dealt with registration, as well as the University of Zurich for providing the conference facilities. Finally, and most importantly, we would like to thank the conference participants – without your work and participation there would be no conference. We hope your stay in Zurich will be an enjoyable and stimulating one.

Ross Purves, Stephan Gruber, Tomislav Hengl and Ralph Straumann August 15th, 2009

Attachment: foreword

Proceedings

Editors:
Ross Purves, Stephan Gruber, Ralph Straumann
Department of Geography
University of Zurich
Winterthurerstrasse 190
CH-8057 Zurich
Switzerland
ross.purves | stephan.gruber | ralph.straumann @geo.uzh.ch
http://www.geo.uzh.ch

Tomislav Hengl
Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics
University of Amsterdam
Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
1018 WV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
t.hengl@uva.nl
http://www.science.uva.nl/ibed

Programme Committee:
Katherine Arrell, University of Leeds, UK
Alexander Brenning, University of Waterloo, Canada
Jürgen Böhner, University of Hamburg, Germany
Olaf Conrad, University of Hamburg, Germany
Lucian Dragut, University of Salzburg, Austria
Ian Evans, Durham University, UK
Peter Fisher, University of Leicester, UK
John Gallant, CSIRO, Australia
Paul Gessler, University of Idaho, USA
Stephan Gruber, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Peter L. Guth, US Naval Academy, USA
Tomislav Hengl, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Oliver Korup, WSL, Switzerland
John Lindsay, University of Guelph, Canada
Helena Mitasova, North Carolina State University, USA
Peter Molnar, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Scott Peckham, Rivix, USA
Ross Purves, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Hannes I. Reuter, GISxperts, Germany
Jochen Schmidt, NIWA, New Zealand
Ralph Straumann, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Andy Turner, Leeds University, UK
Robert Weibel, University of Zurich, Switzerland
John P. Wilson, University of Southern California, USA
Jo Wood, City University London, UK
Qiming Zhou, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Please cite as: Geomorphometry 2009 Conference Proceedings In: Geomorphometry 2009, Edited by R. Purves, S. Gruber, R. Straumann and T. Hengl. University of Zurich, Zurich, 2009.

HESSD - Special Issue

Quantitative analysis of DEMs for hydrology and Earth system science
Editor(s): R. Purves, P. Molnar, and S. Gruber

Attachment: geomorphometry2009ToC.pdf

Programme

Monday 31.08.2009

   Tuesday 1.09.2009

   Wednesday 2.09.2009