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- Title
Mapping the spatial distribution of geomorphological processes in the Okstindan area of northern Norway,using Geomorphic Process Units as derived from remote sensing and ground survey.
- Authors
Gurney, Stephen D.; Bartsch, Annett
- Abstract
The delineation of Geomorphic Process Units (GPUs) aims to quantify past, current and future geomorphological processes and the sediment flux associated with them. Five GPUs have been identified for the Okstindan area of northern Norway and these were derived from the combination of Landsat satellite imagery (TM and ETM+) with stereo aerial photographs (used to construct a Digital Elevation Model) and ground survey. The Okstindan study area is sub-arctic and mountainous and is dominated by glacial and periglacial processes. The GPUs exclude the glacial system (some 37% of the study area) and hence they are focussed upon periglacial and colluvial processes. The identified GPUs are: 1. solifluction and rill erosion; 2. talus creep, slope wash and rill erosion; 3. accumulation of debris by rock and boulder fall; 4. rockwalls; and 5. stable ground with dissolved transport. The GPUs have been applied to a 'test site' within the study area in order to illustrate their potential for mapping the spatial distribution of geomorphological processes. The test site within the study area is a catchment which is representative of the range of geomorphological processes identified.
- Subjects
GEOMORPHOLOGY; MOUNTAINS; VENTIFACT; LANDFORMS; PHYSICAL geography
- Publication
Fennia, 2005, Vol 183, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0015-0010
- Publication type
Article