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The study and mapping of land surfaces, including relief (relative positions and elevations) and the position of natural and constructed features.

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Calculating Topographic Ruggedness Index in ArcGIS Desktop?

Let's do a little (just a little) algebra. Let x be the value in the central square; let x_i, i = 1, .., 8 index the values in the neighboring squares; and let r be the topographic ruggedness index. …
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Correcting for local topography in calculating TRI from DEM in ArcGIS

The question (as clarified in a comment) asks how to remove local slope to calculate relative ruggedness. There is a simple way to do this. It relies on computing the slope using the same local dat …
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What does this style of line on Topographic maps indicate

Clicking on the "legend" button on this map and scrolling reveals the line represents a "dam".
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