Werenskiold Glacier (SW Spitsbergen) — Morphometric Characteristics
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Werenskiold Glacier(SW Spitsbergen) — Morphometric Characteristics
PhD Małgorzata WieczorekUniversity of Wrocław
Santiago – Chile, 15–21.11.2009
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Introduction
• What? – morphometric classification.
• What for? –for determining areas with similar
morphometric characteristic.
• Where? – on the area of Werenskiold Glacier (SW
Spitsbergen, Svarbald).
• Why this area? – it has a great variety of elevation,
also variety of surface shape is different on glacier
and mainland.
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Non-supervised analysis in morphometry– examples
• Ehsani i Quiel (2007) use the SOM for the classification of the same morphometric parameters into ten classes characterized by morphometric position subdivided by slope ranges in Polish and Slovak Carpathian Mountains.
• Gómez (et al. 2004) used ISODATA classification method of the MDTM for detecting class characteristics on the Guadix-Baza basin (S of Spain).
• Arrell et al. (2007) – used k-mean metod for extracting the morphometric classes present in the study area by examination of the first and second derivatives of elevation from DEM of Snowdonia (Wales).
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INPUT DATA
DEM of Werenskiold Glacier.
Resolution:
10 m × 10 m.
The size of the area:
15 km × 18 km
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RELATIVE ELEVATION
Evaluated from DEM in 5 × 5 raster frame
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SLOPE
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ASPECT
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PROFILE CURVATURE
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PLAN CURVATURE
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Median filtration
5-dimensional variable was obtained for 2,7 mln raster pixels.
Median filter in a 5x5 frame has been applied for parameters:
hi = Me({dHi(1), …, dHi(25)}) (1)
si = Me({slopei(1), …, slopei(25)}) (2)
ciprof = Me({profi(1), …, profi(25)}) (3)
ciplan = Me({plani(1), …, plani(25)}) (4)
And for aspect :
ai = arc(mean vector({aspecti(1), …, aspecti(25)}))(5)
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Cluster analysis
Cluster analysis as the example of an unsupervised
method.
Requirements:
• the result of classification should not depend on the
distribution of morphometric variables
• the method must handle directional variables.
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k-median metod
k-median method with Manhattan metric fulfil the
criteria.
Cluster analysis was performed by software
prepared specially for this classification.
The area of Werenskiold Glacier and its
surroundings has been classified from 4 to 9
classes.
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Results
1. Each classification is a proposal of a different morphometric view in a given generalization rate.
2. Apart from the number of classes, in all results the boundary between the glacier and the hills is sharply outlined.
3. Depending on the number of classes the given classification result may be a base for further research on different generalization level.
4. It is very hard to assign a specific name (peak, ridge, plain, etc.) to a class. Sometimes it is even useless, because the matter is to make a quantitative not qualitative classification.
5. For adequate big number of classes the division is more detailed.
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4 groupsh s cprofil cplan a
A 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 N
B 2,06 4,63 0,01 0,01 S
C 13,06 28,99 0,23 -0,15 SW
D 17,09 33,55 -0,12 0,42 SW
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5 groupsh s cprofil cplan a
A 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 N
B 1,99 4,42 0,00 0,01 S
C 17,08 34,48 0,09 -0,19 SW
D 17,03 33,48 -0,14 0,47 SW
E 7,35 18,97 0,38 -0,04 W
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6 groupsh s cprofil cplan a
A 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 N
B 17,45 34,74 0,08 -0,13 SW
C 17,71 34,44 -0,17 0,56 SW
D 8,70 22,15 0,46 -0,06 NW
E 2,44 5,21 -0,03 0,09 SW
F 2,08 4,80 0,05 -0,05 SW
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7 groupsh s cprofil cplan a
A 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 N
B 2,08 4,79 0,05 -0,05 SW
C 17,16 33,97 0,06 0,14 SW
D 17,71 34,54 -0,27 0,76 S
E 7,70 20,16 0,44 -0,06 NW
F 2,24 4,78 -0,04 0,08 SW
G 16,60 34,26 0,12 -0,34 SW
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9 groupsh s cprofil cplan a
A 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 N
B 3,16 7,59 0,10 -0,10 W
C 17,08 34,11 0,09 0,11 SW
D 18,56 36,09 -0,19 0,87 S
E 8,64 22,56 0,53 -0,06 NE
F 1,51 3,42 0,00 0,00 SE
G 16,96 34,96 0,13 -0,38 SW
H 2,46 5,35 -0,03 0,12 W
J 13,21 24,77 -0,58 0,20 W
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k = 5
k = 6
k = 7
k = 9
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Conclusion
1. k-median classification is an example of automated and object-oriented analysis needed at the beginning of terrain exploration, specially these less accessible.
2. Further planned morphometric analyses and method developing are related to operating on the glacier area and the land area separately.
3. Classification method results may also be clues for generalization, when the selection of the most important shapes of an area is needed.
4. The generalization rate of the classes in such method depends on the number of classes, model resolution, its size and internal variety.
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