The application of advanced remote sensing technologies, including terrestrial laser
scanning (TLS), to the Earth sciences has increased rapidly in the last two decades …

Rough surfaces are ubiquitous in nature. Near-surface processes both encounter and create
surface roughness. Recent advances in surveying have improved the resolution, extent and …

Inaccurate information regarding the terrain in construction projects represents a major
challenge to the earthwork process. Both construction quality and productivity have to be …

Rangelands cover 70% of the world's land surface, and provide critical ecosystem services
of primary production, soil carbon storage, and nutrient cycling. These ecosystem services …

Agricultural watersheds tend to be places of intensive farming activities that permanently
modify their microtopography. The surface characteristics of the soil vary depending on the …

Soil microtopography is a property of critical importance in many earth surface processes but
is often difficult to quantify. Advances in computer vision technologies have made image …

Context Landscape composition and configuration determine the generation and exchange
of water flows among different landscape patches and may affect catchment hydrological …

The landscape patch amount and configuration at the class level profoundly affect stream
nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) concentrations in agricultural catchments, but their …

This work develops a fully automatic photogrammetric approach for measuring soil surface
roughness from pictures taken in the field with a simple digital camera, without geometric …

Badlands are highly erodible landscapes with sparse vegetation and rapid runoff responses.
Badland surfaces experience high erosion rates that may have a direct and marked …