Soil moisture and precipitation thresholds for real-time landslide prediction in El Salvador

Landslides

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1179-1196

  Posner, Ari J ^a   Georgakakos, Konstantine P ^a,b  

^a HYDROLOGIC RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed soil moisture accounting; Landslide prediction; Remote sensing of precipitation

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; FORECASTING; GAGES; HAZARDS; LAND USE; LANDSLIDES; MOISTURE; PIXELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; RAIN GAGES; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS;

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; LANDSLIDE PREDICTION; OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS; PRECIPITATION THRESHOLD; REAL-TIME PREDICTION; REGIONAL FORECASTING; SATELLITE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES; TWO DIMENSIONAL SPACES;

SOIL SURVEYS;

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LANDSLIDE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; REAL TIME; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; THRESHOLD;

EL SALVADOR [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 84949105916     PISSN: 1612510X     EISSN: 16125118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10346-015-0618-x     Document Type: Article

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