Landslide susceptibility mapping using a modified decision tree classifier in the Xanthi Perfection, Greece

Landslides

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 305-320

  Tsangaratos, Paraskevas ^a   Ilia, Ioanna ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Certainty factor; Decision tree; Greece; Landslide susceptibility

Indexed keywords

CURVES (ROAD); DECISION TREES; ITERATIVE METHODS; LITHOLOGY;

AREA UNDER THE ROC CURVE; CERTAINTY FACTORS; DECISION TREE CLASSIFIERS; GEOLOGICAL BOUNDARIES; GREECE; HYDROGRAPHIC NETWORKS; LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY; LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPPING;

LANDSLIDES;

ALGORITHM; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GIS; LANDSLIDE; LEARNING; MAPPING METHOD; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; SLOPE ANGLE;

EASTERN MACEDONIA AND THRACE; GREECE; XANTHI;

EID: 84924277953     PISSN: 1612510X     EISSN: 16125118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10346-015-0565-6     Document Type: Article

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