Prediction of landslide susceptibility using rare events logistic regression: A case-study in the Flemish Ardennes (Belgium)

Geomorphology

Volumn 76, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 392-410

  Van Den Eeckhaut, M ^a,b   Vanwalleghem, T ^a   Poesen, J ^a   Govers, G ^a   Verstraeten, G ^a,b   Vandekerckhove, L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b RESEARCH FOUNDATION FLANDERS FWO   (Belgium)

^c Ministry of Flanders   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Deep seated landslides; Landslide susceptibility map; Pre landslide hillslope gradient; Rare events logistic regression

Indexed keywords

HILLSLOPE; LANDSLIDE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ARDENNES [WESTERN EUROPE]; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33747173311     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2005.12.003     Document Type: Article

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