Towards an early-warning system for global landslides triggered by rainfall and earthquake

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 28, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 3713-3719

  Hong, Yang ^a,b   Adler, R F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; EARTHQUAKES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING;

EARLY-WARNING SYSTEM; GROUND-SHAKING PREDICTION SYSTEM; LAND-COVER;

LANDSLIDES;

EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; EARTHQUAKE; LANDSLIDE; PREDICTION; RAINFALL; REAL TIME; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 34547691443     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160701311242     Document Type: Article

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