Effect of Landslide Factor Combinations on the Prediction Accuracy of Landslide Susceptibility Maps in the Blue Nile Gorge of Central Ethiopia

Geoenvironmental Disasters

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Meten, Matebie ^a   PrakashBhandary, Netra ^a   Yatabe, Ryuichi ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Combination; Ethiopia; Frequency ratio; GIS; Landslide susceptibility; Prediction accuracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977854172     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21978670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40677-015-0016-7     Document Type: Article

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