An analysis of landslide susceptibility zonation using a subjective geomorphic mapping and existing landslides

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 554-566

  Pavel, Mihai ^a   Nelson, John D ^a   Jonathan Fannin, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Artificial Neural Networks (ANN); Geographic Information Systems (GIS); Landslide susceptibility mapping; Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ); Subjective geomorphic mapping

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DATA CODING; GEOMORPHIC MAPPING; LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY; LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPPING; LEARNING VECTOR QUANTIZATION; LEARNING VECTOR QUANTIZATION (LVQ); TYPE VARIABLES;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LANDSLIDES; MAPPING; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DATA PROCESSING; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; GIS; LANDSLIDE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VECTOR;

EID: 79952622937     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2010.10.006     Document Type: Article

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