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aspect - The direction in which a slope faces, commonly expressed in degrees clockwise from north. A directly west-facing slope, for example, would have an aspect of 270 degrees. Maps of slope and aspect can be automatically calculated in GRASS from a map of elevation.

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Automatically created on: Thu Oct 13 02:16:43 2005