Japanese early-warning for debris flows and slope failures using rainfall indices with Radial Basis Function Network

Landslides

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 325-338

  Osanai, Nobutomo ^a   Shimizu, Takeshi ^b   Kuramoto, Kazumasa ^c   Kojima, Shinichi ^d   Noro, Tomoyuki ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LAND AND INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT   (Japan)

^b PUBLIC WORKS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c Chuden Engineering Consultants Co   (Japan)

^d Ministry of Land Infrastructure Transport and Tourism   (Japan)

^e Public Works Research Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

Debris flows; Early warning system; Landslides; Radial Basis Function Network; Slope failures

Indexed keywords

CUMULATIVE RAINFALL; DEBRIS FLOWS; EARLY WARNING; EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS; MASS MOVEMENT; NATURAL DISASTERS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; RAINFALL DATA; RAINFALL INDEX; RISK REDUCTIONS; SLOPE FAILURE; SOIL WATER; TORRENTIAL RAINFALLS;

ALARM SYSTEMS; ATTITUDE CONTROL; DEBRIS; DISASTERS; LANDSLIDES; RAIN;

RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DEBRIS FLOW; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LANDSLIDE; RAINFALL; SLOPE FAILURE;

JAPAN;

EID: 77955712669     PISSN: 1612510X     EISSN: 16125118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10346-010-0229-5     Document Type: Article

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