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slope measures  

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  • Within geographic information systems (GIS), there is a family of measures that can be used to describe the local characteristics of surface shape. Gradient, sometimes synonymously referred to as slope, describes the steepness of the change in elevation over distance. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science; Slope Measures]

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