Classification of anthropogenic landforms in the rural area: Study case Bompon catchment, Central Java.

Geomorphologists have considered the anthropogenic process as one of important factors in landforms studies. Numbers of anthropogenic classification are recently introduced without clearly monitoring the relationship between the classes and map scale. This study was designed to classify the anthropogenic landforms in Bompon catchment at a detailed scale. We employed a descriptive and observational survey using the traverse method at 1:10,000 and 1:2,000 map scale. The former created a path of travel with a width of 100 m and 20 m along the stretch of the catchment area. The observation points were selected based on the human activities encountered along the path and in the representative areas, namely type of intervention, formation process, and area. The anthropogenic landforms were grouped according to the modified classification of Szabó & Dávid. The results indicated that human intervention or land transformation occurring in Bompon catchment fell into the categories of Agrogenic, Urbanogenic, Traffic, and Water Management. Each of the four landforms was visible in 1:2,000 map scale, but only the Agrogenic and Urbanogenic ones were classified on a scale of 1:10,000. Denudation, construction, and association are the dominant process in the formation of anthropogenic landforms in the study area. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.