Geomorphometry 2023 - Programme

Published: May 5, 2023 by ISG Board

Scientific Program

Monday (10th July) – Day 1

08:00-08:45 Registration
front of Aula Magna Mihai Eminescu, University Main Corp (A)
08:45-09:00 Opening and Welcome Address
Aula Magna Mihai Eminescu, University Main Corp (A)
09:00-10:00 Geomorphometry Lifetime Achievement Award Lecture: John Wilson
Recent Advances and Challenges in Geomorphometry
10:00-10:20 Ernest Fahrland, Virginia Herrera, Hanne Paschko and Henning Schrader
Evolution of the Copernicus DEM: beyond today’s elevation data with WorldDEM Neo
10:20-10:40 Laurence Paul Hawker, Peter Uhe and Jeffrey Neal
FABDEM Updates - FABDEM V1-2
10:40-11:00 Peter Guth, Carlos Grohmann and Sebastiano Trevisani
Geomorphometric and Geospatial Patterns in Differences Between ALOS and COPDEM
11:00-11:20 Dean Gesch
Assessing Global Elevation Models for Mapping the Low Elevation Coastal Zone
11:20-11:40 Richard Feciskanin
DEM generalization using polygonal simplification
11:40-13:00 Lunch Break
Titu Maiorescu Canteen
13:00-13:20 Fei Zhao and Liyang Xiong
A novel algorithm for calculating flow direction in multi-lake areas
13:20-13:40 Sebastiano Trevisani and Peter L. Guth
Landscape according to surface roughness: experimenting in the Taklimakan Desert
13:40-14:00 Vincent Lecours, Benjamin Misiuk and Craig J. Brown
Exploring the Effects of Acoustic Frequency on Terrain Attributes and Classifications Derived from Digital Bathymetric Models at Multiple Scales
14:00-14:20 John Lindsay
The time-in-daylight land-surface parameter
14:20-14:40 Gaurav Sinha, Samantha Arundel, Romim Somadder, David Martin and Kevin McKeehan
Geomorphometric analysis of Summit and Ridge landforms in the USGS GNIS topographic database
14:40-15:00 Coffee Break
The Hall of the Lost Steps, University Main Corp (A)
15:00-15:20 Mihai Niculiță
Neighborhood contextual merging of segments for landform detection and classification
15:20-15:40 Andrei Dornik, Marinela Adriana Cheţan, Lucian Dragut, Andrei Iliuţă and Daniel Dorin Dicu
Delineation of mapping units for land suitability assessment using land-surface parameters
15:40-16:00 Janusz Godziek
Application of LiDAR-based DTMs and DSMs to detect landforms created by the trees uprooting process
16:00-16:20 Christian Depraetere, Benoît Deffontaines and Serge Riazanoff
Resampling and hydrogeomorphometrical processing of dense Lidar/DEM: Relationships between landforms and hydrological processes in a Mediterranean peri-alpine catchment basin
16:20-16:40 Maeve DeBuse and Peter Guth
Evaluation of elevation, slope, roughness, and vegetation type on the burn severity of the 2020 Calwood Fire in Boulder County, Colorado
17:00-20:00 Guided City Tour - Meeting point is Corp A entry

Tuesday (11th July) – Day 2 (Field Trip)

8:00-9:00 Travel from Iași to Costești
9:00-10:00 Costești Geoarchaeosite
10:00-10:30 Travel from Costești to Cotnari
10:30-11:30 Cotnari Vineyard and Winery
11:30-13:00 Wine tasting and Lunch
13:00-14:30 Travel from Cotnari to Vânători
14:30-16:00 Visit to Dragoș Vodă Bison Reserve
16:00-16:30 Travel from Vânători to Târgu Neamț
16:30-18:00 Neamț Fortress Visit
18:00-20:00 Travel from Târgu Neamț to Iași

Wednesday (12th July) – Day 3

9:00-10:00 Keynote Lecture 1: John Lindsay
The case for locally scale optimized land-surface parameters
10:00-10:40 Simona Bacau, ESRI Romania
Processing Drone Imagery
10:40-11:00 Bofei Zhao, Haigang Sui and Qiming Zhou
Flood inundation analysis based on SAR image and DEM: A case study of the 2021 Zhengzhou Flood in China
11:00-11:20 Alexander Brenning
Novel approaches to spatial model assessment and interpretation: the example of landslide susceptibility modeling
11:20-11:40 Nicusor Necula and Mihai Niculita
Machine learning classification of geomorphometric segments for floodplain detection and delineation
11:40-13:00 Lunch Break
Titu Maiorescu
13:00-13:20 Liyang Xiong, Jiang Yinghui and Sijin Li
Super-resolution for terrain modeling using deep learning in High Mountain Asia
13:20-13:40 Yu-Feng Ho, Tomislav Hengl and Leandro Parente
Cloud services for ensemble global elevation data using an updatable method achieved by parallel computation
13:40-14:00 Jun Chen, Liyang Xiong, Guanghui Hu and Guoan Tang
Integrating topographic knowledge into point cloud simplification for terrain modelling
14:00-14:20 Juan Francisco Reinoso-Gordo and Francisco Javier Ariza-López
A method to rank global DEMs quality focused on their horizontal accuracy
14:20-14:40 Adam Rusinko and Jozef Minár
The role of geomorphometric predictors in LUCC modeling
14:40-15:00 Coffee Break
The Hall of the Lost Steps, University Main Corp (A)
  CEOS DEMIX
15:00-15:20 Peter Strobl
Overview of the DEMIX Initiative
15:20-15:40 Carlos Henrique Grohmann, Carlos López-Vázquez, Peter Guth, Conrad Bielski
The DEMIX Wine Contest: a summary
15:40-16:00 Carlos Henrique Grohmann
The DEMIX Wine Contest Jupyter notebook
16:00-16:20 Peter Guth, Carlos Henrique Grohmann and Sebastiano Trevisani
Subjective Criterion for the DEMIX Wine Contest: Hillshade Maps
16:20-16:40 Guth, Peter L, Grohmann, Carlos H., Trevisani, Sebastiano,and Bielski,Conrad
Going Forward: Extending and Exploiting the DEMIX Database With MICRODEM
16:40-17:00 Serge Riazanoff
DEMIX SG3 Platforms Processing studies Quality assessment of global DEMs from LiDAR data, planimetric, misregistration assessment, use of VHR DEMs to produce Sentinel-1 ARD
17:00-17:40 Panel discussions with the audience

Thursday (13th July) – Day 4

09:00-10:00 Keynote Lecture 2: Jozef Minar
Using principles of physics in geomorphometry: moving toward hypothetico-deductive geoscience
10:00-10:20 Xiaohui Huang and Liyang Xiong
Mapping gully affected areas based on Sentinel 2 imagery and digital elevation model
10:20-10:40 Tian Jia, Cheng-Zhi Qin, Ping Fu and Vladimir Brusic
Applicability of longitudinal profiles for glacial cirque classification
10:40-11:00 Ian Evans, Yingkui Li and Zhibin Zhao
Dependence of statistical results on definitions and extents of study area: examples from cirques and glaciers
11:00-11:20 Hannes Reuter
Applying Terrain analysis to human population?
11:20-11:40 Francisco Javier Ariza-López and Juan Francisco Reinoso
Functional Quality for GDEMs Assessment
11:40-13:00 Lunch Break
Titu Maiorescu
13:00-13:20 Francisco Javier Ariza-López, Manuel A. Ureña-Camara, Juan Francisco Reinoso and Marcelo Antonio Nero
Proposal for a Collaborative Data Infrastructure for Control of DEMs
13:20-13:40 Guohua Gou, Haigang Sui, Sheng Wang, Qiming Zhou and Jianya Gong
Constructing a True 3-D Model of a Karst Cave Using an UAV
13:40-14:00 Carlos Grohmann, Gulherme Garcia, Camila Viana, Helen Dias and Rebeca Coelho
RPA flight pattern and GCP influence on SfM-MVS modeling of a stable landslide in SE Brazil
14:00-14:20 Haigang Sui, Hao Zhang, Qiming Zhou and Jianya Gong
The true 3-D surface reconstruction using a multi-UAV cooperation method
14:20-14:40 ISG Busssiness Meeting
14:40-15:00 Coffee Break
The Hall of the Lost Steps, University Main Corp (A)
15:00-15:20 ISG Busssiness Meeting
15:20-15:40 ISG Busssiness Meeting
15:40-16:40 ISG Busssiness Meeting
16:40-17:00 Coffee Break
The Hall of the Lost Steps, University Main Corp (A)
17:00-18:00 ISG Busssiness Meeting
18:00-21:00 Dinner
University House

Friday (13th July) – Day 5

8:45-10:20 Serge Riazanoff
DEMIX workshop
Department of Geography, University Corp B
(1) VtWeb for DEMs and
(2) DEMIX Operations Portal
(1) How to use VtWeb to select DEMs, their various versions, visualise them, apply on-the-fly processing, compare interactively DEMs and their versions, compute statistics, compute profiles Example PDF
How to use DEMIX Operations Portal to import candidate and VHR reference DEMs and to compute criteria.
10:20-10:40 Coffee Break
Department of Geography, University Corp B
10:40-11:40 Serge Riazanoff
DEMIX workshop
Department of Geography, University Corp B
DEM4S2 How to get the DEM that has been used to orthorectify the Sentinel-2 tile and how this DEM produced on the exact tile footprint can be uploaded to better photo-interpret the optical data. Example
11:40-13:00 Lunch Break
Titu Maiorescu
13:00-14:00 John Lindsay
Whitebox Workshop
Department of Geography, University Corp B
14:00-14:20 Coffee Break
Department of Geography, University Corp B
14:20-15:40 John Lindsay
Whitebox Workshop
Department of Geography, University Corp B
15:40-17:00 John Lindsay
Whitebox Workshop
Department of Geography, University Corp B
17:00-22:00 Informal City Tour
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