Recognition of large scale deep-seated landslides in forest areas of Taiwan using high resolution topography

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue , 2013, Pages 389-400

  Lin, Ching Weei ^a   Tseng, Chih Ming ^b   Tseng, Yi Hsing ^a   Fei, Li Yuan ^c   Hsieh, Yu Chung ^c   Tarolli, Paolo ^d  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG JUNG CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Curvature; Deep seated landslide; Feature extraction; Landslide crown; LiDAR

Indexed keywords

CURVATURE; FOREST; LANDSLIDE; LIDAR; MAPPING; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY;

TAIWAN;

EID: 84872801202     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2012.10.022     Document Type: Article

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