GIS techniques for regional-scale landslide susceptibility assessment: The Sicily (Italy) case study

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1433-1452

  Manzo, G ^a,b   Tofani, V ^a   Segoni, S ^a   Battistini, A ^a   Catani, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b Military Geographical Institute   (Italy)

Author keywords

ArcSDM; GIS; landslide susceptibility; logistic regression; Sicily

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; GIS; LANDSLIDE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 84880950932     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2012.693614     Document Type: Article

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