Landslide velocity, thickness, and rheology from remote sensing: La Clapière landslide, France

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 4299-4304

  Booth, Adam M ^a   Lamb, Michael P ^a   Avouac, Jean Philippe ^a   Delacourt, Christophe ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

failure plane geometry; inverse problem; La Clapiere; landslide thickness; remote sensing; rheology

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK LANDSLIDES; DISTRIBUTED DEFORMATION; FAILURE PLANE; FAILURE SURFACE; HAZARD PREDICTION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; MAXIMUM THICKNESS; THICKNESS MODEL;

DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; REMOTE SENSING; RHEOLOGY; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

LANDSLIDES;

CALIBRATION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; GEOMETRY; LANDSLIDE; MONITORING; PREDICTION; REMOTE SENSING; RHEOLOGY; ROUGHNESS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VELOCITY; VOLUME;

FRANCE;

EID: 84882774558     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50828     Document Type: Article

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