A subjective and objective integrated weighting method for landslides susceptibility mapping based on GIS

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1705-1714

  Wang, Wei Dong ^a,b   Guo, Jing ^a   Fang, Li Gang ^a   Chang, Xin Sheng ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b VIRGINIA TECH TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Entropy; Guizhou; Landslide susceptibility mapping; Trapezoidal fuzzy number weighting; Weighted linear combination

Indexed keywords

CHINA; GUIZHOU; LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPPING; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; TRAPEZOIDAL FUZZY NUMBERS;

ENTROPY; FUZZY RULES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LITHOLOGY; MAPPING;

LANDSLIDES;

DRAINAGE NETWORK; ELEVATION; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GIS; INVENTORY; LANDSLIDE; LITHOLOGY; MAPPING METHOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SLOPE FAILURE; TECTONICS;

CHINA; GUIZHOU;

EID: 84857648443     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-011-1148-z     Document Type: Article

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