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, the entire study area was categorized into five zones of landslides susceptibility based on the TLIV and TLIV …_e, respectively. The prediction accuracy of the landslides determined based on the landslide susceptibility derived from TLIV_e was …The state of Sikkim in India has many steep slopes and has been susceptible to landslides. Since 1968 there have been …
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In this paper we present an application that exploitsa geographic information system as a front-end of acomplex information system supporting the managementof landslide hazard in Valtellina, an alpine valley inNorthern Italy. A decision support system (EYDENET, operational sinceOctober 1996),...
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The October 2005 earthquake triggered several thousand landslides in the Lesser Himalaya of Kashmir in northern …<Superscript>2</Superscript>, the number of landslides increased from 369 in 2001 to 2,252 in October 2005. Assuming a balanced … baseline landsliding frequency over the 4 years, most of the new landslides were likely triggered by the 2005 earthquake and …
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This paper presents an econometric analysis of land-cover change in western Honduras. Ground-truthed satellite image analysis indicates that between 1987 and 1996, net forest regrowth occurred in the 1015 km2 study region. While some forest regrowth can be attributed to a 1987 ban on logging,...
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This study considers the impact of landslides on transportation pavements in rural road network of Cyprus using remote … sensing and geographical information system (GIS) techniques. Landslides are considered to be one of the most extreme natural … a road network is based on the combination of the probability of landslides occurrence and the extent and severity of …
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movements. Susceptibility evaluations to shallow landslides have been performed by only focusing on source activation. A … mountain ridge can be considered acceptable, as 98.1 % of the cells are correctly classified. According to the susceptibility … map, the village of Scilla and its surroundings fall in the highest susceptibility class. Copyright Springer Science …
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inventory, GIS technique and logistic regression model for landslide susceptibility mapping related to the May 12, 2008 Wenchuan … were selected as controlling factors for earthquake-triggered landslide susceptibility mapping. Qualitative susceptibility … 82.751 % between the susceptibility probability index map and the location of the initial landslide inventory. The …
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