Regolith modeling and its relation to earthquake induced building damage: A remote sensing approach

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 65-75

  Shafique, Muhammad ^a,b   van der Meijde, Mark ^a   Ullah, Saleem ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PESHAWAR   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

2005 Kashmir earthquake; Damage assessment; Northern Pakistan; Regolith thickness modeling; Remote sensing; Stepwise regression

Indexed keywords

ASTER; BUILDING; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; KASHMIR EARTHQUAKE 2005; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGOLITH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

EID: 79959287491     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2011.04.004     Document Type: Article

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