An uncertainty and sensitivity analysis approach for GIS-based multicriteria landslide susceptibility mapping

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 610-638

  Feizizadeh, Bakhtiar ^a,b   Blaschke, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

Dempster Shafer Theory; GIS MCDA; landslide susceptibility mapping; Monte Carlo simulation; sensitivity analysis; Urmia lake basin

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GIS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSLIDE; MAPPING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

IRAN; LAKE URMIA;

EID: 84895067280     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2013.869821     Document Type: Article

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