Topography may refer to: - Cartography, geology and oceanography
- Topography, the study of the current terrain features of a region and the graphic representation of the landform on a map. This is distinct from geomorphology, the study of the processes involved in creation of terrain landforms.
- Topography as the study of place, distinguished from the above by focusing not on the physical shape of the surface, but on all details that distinguish a place. Includes both textual and graphic descriptions.
- Dynamic sea surface topography, the average difference between the actual surface of the Earth and a geoid.
- Inverted topography, landscape features that have reversed their elevation relative to other features.
- Karst topography, a three-dimensional landscape shaped by the dissolution of a soluble layer or layers of bedrock, usually carbonate rock such as limestone or dolomite.
- Topographic prominence, a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains, also known as peaks.
- Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, a research effort that obtained digital elevation models on a near-global scale from 56 °S to 60 °N, to generate the most complete high-resolution digital topographic database of Earth to date.
- Topographic maps
- Physics
- Diffraction topography, an X-ray imaging technique based on Bragg diffraction, in which diffraction from a crystal is recorded on film or by detector, resulting in topographic images (topographs).
- Birds
- Topography refers to study of various feather tracts.
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