upland -- n. (adj.) An area that is higher relative to the surrounding areas, but not mountainous; highland- syn.; lowland- ant.
Upland Habitat Goals Project (San Francisco Bay Area, California)
UHMS
Urban Hydrology Monitoring System ...
The pure uplands surface (curve U) is proposed as the oldest, whereas those associated with the interiors of Aristarchus (A) and Tycho (T) are the youngest.
In reality, there is no natural boundary between the classes that humans define on these gradients (wetland/upland), and this issue is highlighted by the U.S.
The study site (7km by 8km) at Halladale in Northern Scotland (see Fig. 2) comprises a typical uplands area with moorland and spruce afforestation (482ha) between 129m and 379m altitude above sea level.
The uplands are used almost exclusively for agriculture. Landsat TM data from May and September of 1986 processed by methods developed by Koeln and Wesley (1987) and Koeln et al. (1988) were used.
This value will be the number of upland cells plus one if no overland flow map is given. If the overland flow map is given, the value will be in overland flow units.
As part of the Coastal Ocean Program (COP), C-CAP inventories coastal and submerged wetland habitats and adjacent uplands and monitors changes in these habitats over one to five years.
A Colorado dryland wheat farmer knows that some of the best yields are in the lowlands while the uplands tend to "burn-out.
Remember that we are eventually going to identify outlet points, so it is more important that the higher-flow downstream cells are identified than all the upland streams.
Terrain: large, flat Kur-Araz Ovaligi (Kura-Araks Lowland) (much of it below sea level) with Great Caucasus Mountains to the north, Qarabag Yaylasi (Karabakh Upland) in west; ...
Transhumance:
The seasonal movement of people and animals in search of pasture. Commonly, winters are spent in snow-free lowlands and summers in the cooler uplands.
Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grid Military grid system based on the transverse Mercator projection, applied to maps of the Earth's surface extending from the Equator to 84 Degrees north and 80 degrees south latitudes upland Highland; ...
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