Abstract
In recent years, the issue of involving part of the former Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site (SNTS) in the economic turnover of local agricultural producers has become acute. This is facilitated by comprehensive environmental studies of the landfill territory. However, studies of morphometric conditions with obtaining numerical characteristics of the landfill relief are practically absent. This study is aimed at studying the morphometric conditions of the relief: slope, aspect, density, and depth of dissection to assess the morphometrically determined factors in the development of a number of modern exogeodynamic processes. The study of morphometric conditions was carried out on the basis of processing and analysis of DEMs, which became the input criteria for scoring. Maps were created and their statistical parameters were extracted: slope, aspect, vertical and horizontal dissection and susceptibility of the relief surface to the factors of development of relief formation in the territory of the SNTS. Thematic information is presented on maps of two types: in the context of elementary areas represented by cells (1×1 km) and interpolation of these elementary areas. The results have practical significance for the development of the principles of an adaptive landscape farming system within the study area.