Qualitative landslide susceptibility assessment by multicriteria analysis: A case study from San Antonio del Sur, Guantánamo, Cuba

Geomorphology

Volumn 94, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 453-466

  Castellanos Abella, Enrique A ^a   Van Westen, Cees J ^b  

^a Instituto de Geologia y Paleontologia La Habana   (Cuba)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Geomorphological mapping; Heuristic analysis; Landslide susceptibility; Multicriteria analysis

Indexed keywords

DATA INTERPRETATION; DATABASE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEURISTICS; LANDSLIDE; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PIXEL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CUBA; GREATER ANTILLES; GUANTANAMO; SAN ANTONIO DEL SUR;

EID: 38349051213     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.10.038     Document Type: Article

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