Random forests and evidential belief function-based landslide susceptibility assessment in Western Mazandaran Province, Iran

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1-17

  Pourghasemi, Hamid Reza ^a   Kerle, Norman ^b  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Evidential belief function; Iran; Landslide; Machine learning; Random forest; Slope instability

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION TREES; LAND USE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LITHOLOGY; MAPPING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AREA UNDER THE CURVES; BELIEF FUNCTION; IRAN; LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY; LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY ASSESSMENTS; LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPPING; RANDOM FORESTS; SLOPE INSTABILITY;

LANDSLIDES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; FIELD SURVEY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LANDSLIDE; MACHINE LEARNING; MAPPING; RANDOM WALK METHOD; SLOPE STABILITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

IRAN; MAZANDARAN;

EID: 84955484794     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-015-4950-1     Document Type: Article

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