An experimental global prediction system for Rainfall-Triggered landslides using satellite remote sensing and geospatial datasets

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1671-1680

  Hong, Yang ^a   Adler, Robert F ^b   Huffman, George ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Landslide; Landslide susceptibility (LS); Natural disasters; Real time precipitation analysis; Satellite remote sensing

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LANDSLIDES; RAIN; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SOILS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

GEOSPATIAL DATASETS; LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY (LS); RAIN FALL ANALYSIS SYSTEMS; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; SOIL TEXTURE;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 34249825519     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.888436     Document Type: Article

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