Geographia Technica, Issue no. 1/2011, pp. 91-100

ANTHROPOGENIC LANDFORM MODELING USING GIS TECHNIQUES
CASE STUDY: VRANCEA REGION

Adrian URSU, Dan-Adrian CHELARU, Florin-Constantin MIHAI, Iulian IORDACHE

ABSTRACT: Anthropogenic landforms are the result of significant changes in the Earth's crust due to technological development of human society, guided by its economic, social and cultural needs. nthropogenic landforms of the studied area was analyzed using GIS techniques at the general scale, conducting the entire study area maps, and detailed modeling of representative samples in detail. Representing the anthropogenic landforms on the digital elevation model can be very important in studying natural hazards, such as hydrological modeling on flood plains, which could influence the direction of the flood wave. The digital elevation model (DEM) made by traditional methods can not represent the anthropogenic landforms, leading sometimes to a misinterpretation of reality on the ground.

Keywords: Anthropogenic landforms, GIS techniques, digital elevation model, Vrancea, Romania .

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