Rainfall-induced landslide susceptibility zonation of Puerto Rico

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1667-1681

  Lepore, Chiara ^a   Kamal, Sameer A ^a,b   Shanahan, Peter ^a   Bras, Rafael L ^a,c  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Frequency ratio; GIS; Landslide susceptibility; Landslides; Logistic regression; Puerto Rico; Rainfall induced landsliding; Susceptibility maps

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY RATIOS; LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY; LANDSLIDING; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; PUERTO RICO; SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPS;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LOGISTICS; LOSSES; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

LANDSLIDES;

GEOLOGICAL HAZARD; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LAND COVER; LANDSLIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TERRITORY;

PUERTO RICO;

EID: 84862844904     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-011-0976-1     Document Type: Article

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