The National Landslide Database of Great Britain: Acquisition, communication and the role of social media

Geomorphology

Volumn 249, Issue , 2015, Pages 44-51

  Pennington, Catherine ^a   Freeborough, Katy ^a   Dashwood, Claire ^a   Dijkstra, Tom ^a   Lawrie, Kenneth ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Database; Domains; Landslide; National; Thresholds; Twitter

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE; GIS; LANDSLIDE; MASS MEDIA; SLOPE FAILURE; WORLD WIDE WEB;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84943660412     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.03.013     Document Type: Article

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