State of the art of national landslide databases in Europe and their potential for assessing landslide susceptibility, hazard and risk

Geomorphology

Volumn 139-140, Issue , 2012, Pages 545-558

  Van Den Eeckhaut, Miet ^a   Hervás, Javier ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Database content; Europe; Landslide inventory; Landslide zoning; National and regional landslide databases

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATABASE; FIELD SURVEY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INVENTORY; LANDSLIDE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; ZONING SYSTEM;

EUROPE;

EID: 84856017060     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.12.006     Document Type: Article

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