Assessment of rockfall susceptibility by integrating statistical and physically-based approaches

Geomorphology

Volumn 94, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 419-437

  Frattini, Paolo ^a   Crosta, Giovanni ^a   Carrara, Alberto ^b   Agliardi, Federico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

3D rockfall simulation; Multi variate statistical models; Rockfall susceptibility; Val di Fassa

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; DATA INTERPRETATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GIS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; NATURAL DISASTER; ROCKFALL; SIMULATION; SLOPE DYNAMICS;

EID: 38149011421     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.10.037     Document Type: Article

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