Assessment of susceptibility to earth-flow landslide using logistic regression and multivariate adaptive regression splines: A case of the Belice River basin (western Sicily, Italy)

Geomorphology

Volumn 242, Issue , 2015, Pages 49-64

  Conoscenti, Christian ^a   Ciaccio, Marilena ^a   Caraballo Arias, Nathalie Almaru ^a   Gómez Gutiérrez, Álvaro ^b   Rotigliano, Edoardo ^a   Agnesi, Valerio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Earth flows; Geographic Information Systems (GIS); Landslide susceptibility; Logistic regression; Multivariate adaptive regression splines; Receiver operating characteristic curve

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; GIS; LANDSLIDE; PIXEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

BELIZE [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 84930633276     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.09.020     Document Type: Article

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