Predictive modelling of rainfall-induced landslide hazard in the Lesser Himalaya of Nepal based on weights-of-evidence

Geomorphology

Volumn 102, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 496-510

  Dahal, Ranjan Kumar ^a,b   Hasegawa, Shuichi ^a   Nonomura, Atsuko ^a   Yamanaka, Minoru ^a   Dhakal, Santosh ^c   Paudyal, Pradeep ^b  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

^c Lainchaur ^*  (Nepal)

Author keywords

GIS; Landslide hazard mapping; Landslides; Lesser Himalaya; Nepal; Weights of evidence

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GIS; LANDSLIDE; MODELING; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; THEMATIC MAPPING;

ASIA; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS; KATHMANDU VALLEY; LESSER HIMALAYAS; NEPAL; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 51749103289     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.05.041     Document Type: Article

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