Geomorphologic analysis and cartography based on spatial images: Applications to two massifs from the Romanian Carpathians

摘要

This paper demonstrates the qualities of high resolution spatial images in geomorphologic analysis and cartography. Our application concerns two important massifs from the Romanian Carpathians: Bucegi Mountains and Leaota Mountains. The relief analysis and cartography, based on a spatial image recorded by the astronauts on the spacecraft Endeavour, were achieved both on the whole as well as on representative samples. The images (global or zooms) and the resultant thematic geomorphologic maps (the general orographic map, morphographic map, relief fragmentation density map, morphostructural map) are superimposed or represented in parallel. The materials obtained in this manner will be included in the relief informational section from the GIS dedicated to the two Carpathian massifs, one of them -Bucegi Mountains -having been declared a natural park.