Probabilistic landslide hazard assessment using homogeneous susceptible units (HSU) along a national highway corridor in the northern Himalayas, India

Landslides

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 293-308

  Das, Iswar ^a,b   Stein, Alfred ^a   Kerle, Norman ^a   Dadhwal, V K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING   (India)

Author keywords

Hazard; Himalayas; HSU; India; Landslides; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; DIFFERENT SIZES; HIMALAYAS; HSU; INDIA; JOINT PROBABILITY; LANDSLIDE FREQUENCY; LANDSLIDE HAZARD; LANDSLIDE HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY; MULTI-TEMPORAL DATA; POISSON MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES; REGION GROWING; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; TERRAIN MAPPING; TIME-PERIODS; VARIANCE METHOD;

HAZARDS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PROBABILITY; RATING;

LANDSLIDES;

ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HOMOGENEITY; LANDSLIDE; MAPPING METHOD; MOTORWAY; PROBABILITY; ROAD TRANSPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY;

HIMALAYAS; INDIA;

EID: 80052261592     PISSN: 1612510X     EISSN: 16125118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10346-011-0257-9     Document Type: Article

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