Macro Landslide Hazard Zonation Mapping - Case Study from Bodi - Bodimettu Ghats Section, Theni District, Tamil Nadu - India

Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 485-496

  Kannan, M ^a   Saranathan, E ^a   Anbalagan, R ^b  

^a SASTRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Landslides; LHEF; LHZ; TEHD

Indexed keywords

HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HYDROGEOLOGY; LANDSLIDE; LITHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; MOUNTAIN REGION; SLOPE ANGLE; SLOPE FAILURE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

INDIA; TAMIL NADU; THENI; WESTERN GHATS;

EID: 82955187899     PISSN: 0255660X     EISSN: 09743006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12524-011-0112-4     Document Type: Article

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