Landslide susceptibility deterministic approach using geographic information systems: Application to Breaza town, Romania

Natural Hazards

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 995-1017

  Armaş, Iuliana ^a   Vartolomei, Florin ^b   Stroia, Florica ^a   Braşoveanu, Livioara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b SPIRU HARET UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

GIS; Infinite slope stability model; Landslide susceptibility; Shallow landslides

Indexed keywords

GIS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LANDSLIDE; SLOPE FAILURE; SLOPE STABILITY;

PRAHOVA RIVER; ROMANIA;

EID: 84891087285     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-013-0857-x     Document Type: Article

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