Improving landslide forecasting using ASCAT-derived soil moisture data: A case study of the torgiovannetto landslide in central Italy

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1232-1244

  Brocca, Luca ^a   Ponziani, Francesco ^b   Moramarco, Tommaso ^a   Melone, Florisa ^a   Berni, Nicola ^b   Wagner, Wolfgang ^c  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^b Umbria Region Functional Centre   (Italy)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

ASCAT; Remote sensing; Shallow landslides; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ASCAT; CENTRAL ITALY; HUMAN LIVES; LANDSLIDE MOVEMENTS; LOCAL SCALE; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; MOISTURE CONDITIONS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION APPROACHES; OPERATIONAL ISSUES; PREDICTOR VARIABLES; RAINFALL PATTERNS; ROCK SLIDES; ROCK SLOPE; SATELLITE DATA; SCATTEROMETERS; SHALLOW LANDSLIDE; SOIL WATER INDICES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECIFIC AREAS; TENSION CRACKS;

DILATOMETERS; FORECASTING; LINEAR REGRESSION; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SOIL MOISTURE;

LANDSLIDES;

EID: 84861441040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4051232     Document Type: Article

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