PROMINENCE
THEORY
10/13/2004
I have uploaded an unpublished essay entitled Prominence and Orometrics
that I wrote in 2003. This should serve as an introduction to the
concepts and usefulness of important concepts such as prominence, key
saddles, divide trees, mountain lineage and parents, and domains.
Please send feedback to the author.
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Here to Begin: Prominence and Orometrics
Table of Contents:
1.
An Introduction to Prominence
1.1
Definition
of Prominence
1.2 Prominence
is Relative Elevation
1.3
Prominence as a Qualifying Rule
1.4 The
Prominence Theorists
1.5 Reordering of Mountains
Based on Prominence
2.
Every Summit has a Saddle
3.
The Theory of Surface Networks
3.1
Surface Elements
3.2 The Surface Network
3.3 Maxwell's Hills and Dales
3.4 Ridge and Channel Networks
3.5 Key Saddles and Basin Saddles
4.
An Exploration of the Divide Tree
4.1
Does the Divide Tree have a Root?
4.2 Automatic Extraction of
Prominence
4.3 Highly Connected Peaks
5.
Distribution and Probability of Prominence
5.1
Persistence of Prominence in the United States
5.2 Prominence Density
5.3 Distribution of datasets
5.4 Prominence and Elevation
5.5 Dominance
6.
Lineage Theory
6.1
Meet the Parents
Line Parents (NHN)
Prominence Parents (PP)
Island Parents (IP)
6.2 The Lineage
6.3 The Lineage Key
6.4 Notes on the San Francisco
Lineage
7.
Do Mountains Have a Natural Domain?
7.1
Lineage Cells -- a non-hierarchical vision of hills
7.2 Lineage Area -- the superset
7.3 PALA -- the natural Domain of
the summit
7.4 Lineage Groups
8.
Lineage Groups and Mountain Hierarchies
8.1
Three types of parent and three types of Set Theory.
8.2 The Group Mentality
8.3 First Order Groupings -
disecting the continent
8.4 Second Order Groupings -
approximating the Ultras
8.5 Third Order Groupings - The
P2000 lineage cells
9. Isolation
Citation: Prominence
and Orometrics: A Study of the Measurement of Mountains.
Aaron Maizlish ©2003.
Coming Soon to the Theory Page?
• A Quick
Overview of Mountain Prominence, Surface Elements, Lineage and
Domains (summary of above article)
• Analysis of the Distribution of Mountains Worldwide.
• Article on some likely unclimbed Ultra-Prominences
Worldwide
• Glossary of Terms
• Introduction to Winprom - automated extraction of
prominence and divide trees
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Meanwhile...
Read all about prominence here on the COHP.org website.
If you read German, also check out Eberhard
Jurgalski's site.
And if you have something to contribute, join the open discussion
forum: Yahoo
Group
dedicated to prominence.
Feel free to contribute an article to this page.