Mapping susceptibility of rainfall-triggered shallow landslides using a probabilistic approach

Environmental Geology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 907-915

  Liu, Chia Nan ^a   Wu, Chia Chen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fluid pressure; Landslide; Mapping; Probability; Rainfall

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; CONSERVATION; ESTIMATION; MAPS; MILITARY OPERATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PIXELS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RANDOM VARIABLES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY FACTOR; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL CONSERVATION;

ACCESSIBLE INFORMATION; ANALYSIS RESULTS; CASE HISTORIES; CONVENTIONAL MAPPING; DATA LAYERS; EMERGENCY MEASURES; FACTOR OF SAFETY; FAILURE PROBABILITIES; FLUID PRESSURES; GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LANDSLIDE HAZARDS; LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION (MCS); POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; SHALLOW LANDSLIDES; SIMULATION RESULTS; SITE INFORMATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF; SYSTEMATIC (CO);

LANDSLIDES;

GIS; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; LANDSLIDE; MAPPING METHOD; PIXEL; RAINFALL;

EID: 48249115181     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-007-1042-x     Document Type: Article

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