Statistical analysis of Brepollen bathymetry as a key to determine average depths on a glacier foreland

The study demonstrates the usefulness of statistical analysis to classify valleys because of the influence of the glaciers that formed them, as well as to determine the average depth at their cross-section parallel to the glacier front. Moreover, the usefulness of the analysis of shape of the histogram of depth, the value of skewness and kurtosis, and the relation between the average, median, and mode of depths to classify valleys is shown. The statistical analysis of the normalized shape of the valley cross-sections allowed establishment of the relation between the measured depth, the location of the measurements and the average depth of the valley cross-sections.