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Terrain analysis
originated as
a military term denoting the process of analyzing and
interpreting man-made and natural features on the earth’s
surface.
Today terrain analysis applies to a wide range of
scientific and engineering disciplines such as Archaeology, Civil Engineering, Hydrology, Ecology, Land
Development, Environmental Engineering, Military Planning, Forestry, Natural Resource Management, and Urban Planning.
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The
features presently extracted by the
Terrain Analysis System are landforms
and drainage. From the
geomorphologic discipline we know that using landform
information we can infer material composition and internal arrangement.
For example, the sand dune terrain feature provides
information of the sand grain size distribution and its bedding
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