Landslide susceptibility assessment at Wadi Jawrah Basin, Jizan region, Saudi Arabia using two bivariate models in GIS

Geosciences Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 449-469

  Youssef, Ahmed Mohamed ^a,b   Pradhan, Biswajeet ^c   Pourghasemi, Hamid Reza ^d   Abdullahi, Saleh ^c  

^a Sohag University   (Egypt)

^b SAUDI GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^d SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

frequency ratio; GIS; landslide; remote sensing; Saudi Arabia; weights of evidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940451832     PISSN: 12264806     EISSN: 15987477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12303-014-0065-z     Document Type: Article

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