Figures, landscapes and landsystems: Digital locations, connectivity and communications

Abstract

AbstractCurrent geomorphological research tends to give preference to landforms rather than landscapes. This commentary brings these notions closer together and incorporates varied views of ‘landscape’ (such as landscapes in art and poetry) as well as showing the difficulties of communicating them to audiences wider than geomorphology. The paper promotes the use of decimal Latitude Longitude (dLL) values to assist better location of samples, analyses and especially landforms, to produce ‘information surfaces’ within landscape and landsystem approaches to geomorphology. This will also help the development of geomorphic visual literacy.