НОВЫЕ ЗАДАЧИ МОРФОМЕТРИИ РЕЛЬЕФА И АВТОМАТИЗИРОВАННЫЕ МОРФОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ КЛАССИФИКАЦИИ В ГЕОМОРФОЛОГИИ

Despite the rapid development of computational technologies and methods and the increasing number of publications related to the geomorphometric analysis of terrain, no summaries in this branch of geomorphology were created in the last decade. In the “Russian-language” articles and books in geomorphometry this problem is especially relevant. Sometimes, geomorphometry has become regarded as a semi-marginal discipline which has no real importance for studying of landforms. The list of the main drags for thegeomorphometric analysis development is given in the article: geomorphological convergence and homology, not-interpretability of complex statistical models, slight representativeness of common metrics for automatictracing of geomorphological boundaries, and so on. The possible solutions of these problems on the way to the morpho-chrono-genetic mapping of landforms are scheduled. A short review is provided of clustering, classification, computer vision and pattern recognition, development and using of unusual geomorphometric variables. The article encourages geomorphologists to intensify their efforts (and to lead the researches if possible) in these four thematic directions to prevent the proceeding separation of traditional geomorphology and geomorphometry.