Mapping of rainfall-induced landslide susceptibility in Wencheng, China, using support vector machine

Natural Hazards

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1759-1779

  Su, Cheng ^a   Wang, Lili ^a   Wang, Xizhi ^a   Huang, Zhicai ^a   Zhang, Xiaocan ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; GIS; Landslide susceptibility; Rainfall; Receiver operation characteristic; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; GIS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LANDSLIDE; MAPPING; RAINFALL;

CHINA; ZHEJIANG;

EID: 84924076847     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: 15730840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-014-1562-0     Document Type: Article

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