Evaluation of a preliminary satellite-based landslide hazard algorithm using global landslide inventories

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 673-686

  Kirschbaum, D B ^a,b   Adler, R ^b,c   Hong, Y ^d   Lerner Lam, A ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ESTIMATION METHOD; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INVENTORY; LANDSLIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STOCHASTICITY; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

EID: 77649238906     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-9-673-2009     Document Type: Article

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