September, 2012 landslide events in Okhimath, India-an assessment of landslide consequences using very high resolution satellite data

Landslides

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 469-479

  Martha, Tapas R ^a   Vinod Kumar, K ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Cloudbursts; Damage assessment; Debris flows; Event based inventory; Landslide detection

Indexed keywords

CLOUDBURSTS; DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS; DEBRIS FLOWS; EVENT-BASED; LANDSLIDE DETECTION;

DAMAGE DETECTION; DEBRIS; SATELLITES; SPACE RESEARCH;

LANDSLIDES;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; DAMAGE; DEBRIS FLOW; ESCARPMENT; GEOEYE-1; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LANDSLIDE; RAINFALL; ROCKFALL; SATELLITE DATA; SPACE;

INDIA; UTTARAKHAND;

EID: 84883754294     PISSN: 1612510X     EISSN: 16125118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10346-013-0420-6     Document Type: Article

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