Spatial scan statistics in vulnerability assessment: An application to mountain hazards

Natural Hazards

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2129-2151

  Fuchs, Sven ^a   Ornetsmüller, Christine ^a,b   Totschnig, Reinhold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Debris flow; European Alps; Fluvial sediment transport; Risk assessment; SaTScan; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE; DEBRIS FLOW; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; NATURAL HAZARD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY;

ALPS; AUSTRIA;

EID: 84867995955     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-011-0081-5     Document Type: Article

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