Advances in landslide nowcasting: Evaluation of a global and regional modeling approach

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1683-1696

  Kirschbaum, Dalia Bach ^a   Adler, Robert ^b   Hong, Yang ^c   Kumar, Sujay ^d   Peters Lidard, Christa ^a   Lerner Lam, Arthur ^e  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^e Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm development; Central America; Hazard inventory; Hurricane Mitch; Landslide forecasting

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT; ALGORITHM FRAMEWORK; ALGORITHM PERFORMANCE; ALGORITHM VALIDATION; AS-SOILS; CENTRAL AMERICA; GLOBAL ALGORITHMS; HAZARDOUS AREA; IN-SITU; LANDSLIDE HAZARD; LANDSLIDE HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY; NOWCASTING; OPERATIONAL TOOLS; RAINFALL ESTIMATES; REGIONAL MODELING; REGIONAL SCALE; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; SPATIAL SCALE; THRESHOLD APPROACH; TRIGGERING FACTORS; TRIGGERING THRESHOLD;

ALGORITHMS; HAZARDS; HURRICANES; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE;

LANDSLIDES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HURRICANE MITCH 1998; LANDSLIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE; THRESHOLD;

CENTRAL AMERICA;

EID: 84862906244     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-011-0990-3     Document Type: Article

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