Identification of landslide spatial distribution and susceptibility assessment in relation to topography in the Xi’an Region, Shaanxi Province, China

Frontiers of Earth Science

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 449-462

  Zhuang, Jianqi ^a   Peng, Jianbing ^a   Iqbal, Javed ^b,c   Liu, Tieming ^a   Liu, Na ^a   Li, Yazhe ^a   Ma, Penghui ^a  

^a CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences ^*  (Pakistan)

Author keywords

landslide distribution; logistic model; ROC; susceptibility assessment; Xi an

Indexed keywords

HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LANDSLIDE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TOPOGRAPHY;

CHINA; SHAANXI; XIAN;

EID: 84937968967     PISSN: 20950195     EISSN: 20950209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11707-014-0474-3     Document Type: Article

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