Exploring the effect of absence selection on landslide susceptibility models: A case study in Sicily, Italy

Geomorphology

Volumn 261, Issue , 2016, Pages 222-235

  Conoscenti, Christian ^a   Rotigliano, Edoardo ^a   Cama, Mariaelena ^a   Caraballo Arias, Nathalie Almaru ^a   Lombardo, Luigi ^a   Agnesi, Valerio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Geographic Information Systems (GIS); Google Earth; Landslide susceptibility; Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS)

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL MAP; GIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSLIDE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SLOPE FAILURE;

ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 84960842672     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.03.006     Document Type: Article

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