Assessment of shallow landslides from Hurricane Mitch in central America using a physically based model

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1697-1705

  Liao, Zonghu ^a   Hong, Yang ^a   Kirschbaum, Dalia ^b   Liu, Chun ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hazard prediction; Hurricane Mitch; Landslide; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL AMERICA; ERROR INDEX; FACTOR OF SAFETY; FORECASTING SYSTEM; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; GEOLOGIC INFORMATION; HAZARD PREDICTION; HEAVY RAINFALL; HIGH DENSITY; HIGH FREQUENCY; HONDURAS; IN-SITU TEST; INFINITE SLOPE; INVENTORY DATA; LAND COVER; LANDSLIDE HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MODELING RESULTS; MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS; PARAMETER CALIBRATION; PHYSICAL MODEL; PHYSICALLY BASED MODELS; POTENTIAL TOOL; PRECIPITATION PRODUCTS; PROTOTYPE MODELS; RAINFALL DEPTHS; RAPID MOBILITY; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SHALLOW LANDSLIDE; SLOPE FAILURE; SPATIAL SCALE; STUDY AREAS; SURFACE PARAMETER; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; WATER INFILTRATION;

FORECASTING; HAZARDS; HURRICANES; RAIN; RATING; REMOTE SENSING; SAFETY FACTOR;

LANDSLIDES;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CALIBRATION; FORECASTING METHOD; HURRICANE MITCH 1998; LAND COVER; LANDSLIDE; MOBILITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY;

CENTRAL AMERICA;

EID: 84862907411     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-011-0997-9     Document Type: Article

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