Comparison of GIS-based gullying susceptibility mapping using bivariate and multivariate statistics: Northern Calabria, South Italy

Geomorphology

Volumn 134, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 297-308

  Lucà, Federica ^a   Conforti, Massimo ^a   Robustelli, Gaetano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bivariate method; Calabria; Gullying susceptibility; Logistic regression; Statistics

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GIS; GULLY; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CALABRIA; ITALY;

EID: 80053052719     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.07.006     Document Type: Article

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