Surface Characterisation Theory

Many of the surface analysis and query functions of LandSerf are built upon ideas of multi-scale analysis developed over the last 10 years. For more details see the following:

Quadratic Approximation

• Wood, J. (1996) The Parameterisation of Geomorphological Surfaces in The Geomorphological Characterisation of Digital Elevation Models, PhD Thesis, University of Leicester.
• Wood, J. (1996) Morphometric Characterisation in The Geomorphological Characterisation of Digital Elevation Models, PhD Thesis, University of Leicester.
• Wood, J. (1998) Modelling the continuity of surface form in DEMs, in Poiker, T. and Chrisman, N. (eds.) Proceedings, 8th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, IGU, Vancouver, pp.725-736.

Visualisation of Scale Dependencies

• Wood, J. (1999) Visualisation of Scale Dependencies in Surface Models Presented to the International Cartographic Association Annual Conference, Ottawa 1999.

Metric Surface Networks

• Wood, J. (2000) Constructing Weighted Surface Networks for the Representation and Analysis of Surface Topology
• Rana, S. (2004) Topological Data Structures for Surfaces. London: Wiley.

Fuzzy Feature Classification

• Fisher, P., Wood, J. and Cheng, T. (2004) Where is Helvellyn? Fuzziness of Multiscale Landscape Morphometry, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.

Java Programming and Object Oriented Modelling

• Wood, J. (2002) Java Programming for Spatial Sciences
, London: Taylor and Francis.