Consideration of optimal pixel resolution in deriving landslide susceptibility zoning within the Sydney Basin, New South Wales, Australia

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 82, Issue , 2015, Pages 13-22

  Palamakumbure, Darshika ^a   Flentje, Phil ^a   Stirling, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decision tree; GIS; Landslide inventory; Pixel resolution; See5; Susceptibility modelling

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAND USE; PIXELS; ZONING;

LANDSLIDE INVENTORIES; LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY; LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPPING; LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY ZONING; NEW SOUTH WALES , AUSTRALIA; PIXEL RESOLUTION; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; SEE5;

LANDSLIDES;

DATA SET; GIS; LANDSLIDE; MAPPING; MODEL VALIDATION; PIXEL;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; SYDNEY BASIN;

EID: 84930203068     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2015.05.002     Document Type: Article

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