DEM-Based Landforms Extraction and Application ——A Case Study in the Hilly-gully Areas of the Loess Plateau

From the point of view of the landforms’cause of formation, landforms configuration and land use, regional characters of the three types of landforms in the hilly gully areas of the Loess Plateau are analyzed Approach and technology for automatic extraction of landforms are discussed using DEM as data resource,ArcView as instrument and regional characters of different landforms as basis taking Liujiagou River Basin in Suide County of northern Shaanxi Province as a case This research discovered that the approach and technology for automatic landforms extration using DEM is a high efficient method which is very important to guide biologic rescue of sloping plantation, govern water and soil conservation and test land use dynamically