What is relief topography?

Occasionally, I use the word “relief” or “topographic relief” in conversation, and often my listener misunderstands that term. Topography is a term used to describe the shape or roughness of a surface. read more

Relief topography is a type of mapping that uses modeling to show altitude. For the USGS, topography is a type of mapping that shows elevation with contour lines. The contour lines have intervals based on how much the elevation changes with the area being mapped (for instance: 50 ft). read more

relief and topography both gives us the knowledge of the elevation and the type of land forms of a place but topography also tells us about the surface shape and the distribution of land forms in a region. read more