SLOPEMAP: programs for automated mapping of geometrical and kinematical properties of hard rock hill slopes ?
SLOPEMAP is a suite of QUICKBASIC programs for the spatially distributed derivation of geometrical and kinematical properties of hill slopes in hard rock terrain with structural and topographic data, based on regular cellular grids. The tools include methods for a rapid construction of regional Digital Structural Models (DSM), composed of spatially interpolated orientation data from structural field measurements, and applications to compute geometrical and kinematical properties of large slope regions from combining DSM with Digital Elevation Model (DEM)-derived parameters. Though dealing with 3-D vector data, the system is based entirely on regular cellular grid calculations and does therefore not necessarily require the use of 3-D computer environments, but can be used with 2-D grid-based graphical applications. SLOPEMAP can be applied to various tasks in geoscientific digital terrain analysis, like slope stability assessments, map scale structural analysis, the recognition of hydrologic flow paths, or geomorphological landscape analysis.
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