Selecting and weighting spatial predictors for empirical modeling of landslide susceptibility in the darjeeling himalayas (india)

Geomorphology

Volumn 131, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 35-56

  Ghosh, Saibal ^a,b   Carranza, Emmanuel John M ^b   van Westen, Cees J ^b   Jetten, Victor G ^b   Bhattacharya, Dipendra N ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Analytical hierarchy process; Darjeeling Himalayas; Shallow translational landslides; Spatial association

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; DEBRIS FLOW; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LANDSLIDE; MODELING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

DARJEELING; INDIA; WEST BENGAL;

EID: 79957645026     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.04.019     Document Type: Article

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