Landslide hazard mapping and the application of GIS in the Kulekhani watershed, Nepal

Mountain Research and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 3-16

  Dhakal, Amod Sagar ^a   Amada, Takaaki ^a   Aniya, Masamu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GIS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LANDSLIDE; MAPPING METHOD;

KULEKHANI; NEPAL;

EID: 0032975772     PISSN: 02764741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3674109     Document Type: Article

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