GIS-multicriteria decision analysis for landslide susceptibility mapping: Comparing three methods for the Urmia lake basin, Iran

Natural Hazards

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 2105-2128

  Feizizadeh, Bakhtiar ^a,b   Blaschke, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

GIS multicriteria decision analysis; Iran; Landslide susceptibility; Multicriteria evaluation; Uncertainty analysis; Urmia lake basin

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; DECISION ANALYSIS; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GIS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LANDSLIDE; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; SPATIAL DATA; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; ZONATION;

IRAN; LAKE URMIA;

EID: 84871896974     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0463-3     Document Type: Article

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