Implementation and integrated numerical modeling of a landslide early warning system: A pilot study in Colombia

Natural Hazards

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 501-518

  Huggel, Christian ^a   Khabarov, Nikolay ^b   Obersteiner, Michael ^b   Ramírez, Juan Manuel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^c SWISS AGENCY FOR DEVELOPMENT AND COOPERATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Early warning systems; Earth observation; Integrated modeling; Landslides; Uncertainties

Indexed keywords

EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LANDSLIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COLOMBIA;

EID: 77649233263     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-009-9393-0     Document Type: Article

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