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 | | Two approaches recently developed to describe continuous topography, as distinguished from discrete landforms, are the DEM-based 'terrain fabric' of Guth (1999a, b; 2001) and surface 'openness' of Yokoyama and others (1999, 2002). |
 | | Terrain fabric characterizes the tendency of a surface to be organized into linear ridges rather than isotropic topography, whereas openness expresses dominance (exposure) versus enclosure of a location on an irregular surface. |
 | | Extraterrestrial landforms recently studied from height measurements include impact craters, volcanoes, scarps, and other features on the Moon (Craddock and Howard, 1999), Mercury (Watters and others, 2002), Venus (Bulmer and Wilson, 1999; Herrick and Sharpton, 2000), and the satellites of Jupiter (Schenk and others, 2001; Schenk, 2002). |
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