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Geomorphometry.org is financed through conference fees of the geomorphometry meetings. <strong>Participants of the geomorphometry meetings are automatically registered in the system as active users, which also means that they have access to internal web-pages and have an exclusive right to vote on the important issues</strong>.</p> 239 240<p>The specific objectives of the Geomorphometry society are:</p> 241 242<ul> 243 <li>To improve understanding of the properties of the land surface, as analysed quantitatively from Digital Elevation Models and from digital or paper maps;</li> 244 <li>To advance the techniques used in land surface (terrain) analysis;</li> 245 <li>To foster international collaboration in the quantitative analysis of the land surface;</li> 246 <li>To run a web site (geomorphometry.org) to facilitate communication between scientists and students, advertise relevant conferences and make available public-domain data sets and scientific papers;</li> 247</ul> 248 249<h3 id="why-geomorphometryorg">Why geomorphometry.org?</h3> 250 251<p>The purpose of this website is:</p> 252 253<ul> 254 <li>To initiate open discussion among DEM users and GIS analysts that actively run geomorphometric analysis.</li> 255 <li>
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