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Computing in Geographic Information Systems
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Computing in Geographic Information Systems

by Narayan Panigrahi
July 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
303 pages
8h 34m
English
CRC Press
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12.7 Curvature
The rate of change of slope i.e. the first order derivative of the slope or the
second order derivative of DTM gives the curvature of the Earth’s surface.
Generally curvature describes the terrain surface in terms of how convex,
concave or plane the surface is with respect to its surroundings. Curvature
is computed using the second order partial derivatives as given by equation
12.17.
Curvature =
s
(
2
Z
∂X
2
)
2
+ (
2
Z
∂Y
2
)
2
(12.17)
The curvature of a particular point in the grid of DEM can also be computed
using the Hessian function as given in Chapter 6 and its subsequent inter-
pretation with resp ...
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