Questions tagged [topography]
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What's the difference between topography and orography?
Both seem to be a study of a planet's surface. Topography seems to have more to do with the graphical depiction of surface features, but there seems to be a lot of overlap...
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Details on Ocean floor
Taking for example the attached image, when looking at the ocean floor, there appears to be areas (strips, some of which I have drawn red lines by) of greater detail. Is this accurate detail? From ships that have passed over the area?
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Why does Google maps (in terrain mode) space thier topo lines 80 feet apart?
Is 80 feet some sort of standard?
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Topographic differencing using lidar
I have two lidar images which I want to use to do a topographic differencing. The two lidar images are of different spatial resolutions and are not co-registered. What is the best method to line the two images up to perform the topographic…
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