Landslide susceptibility assessment using maximum entropy model with two different data sampling methods

Catena

Volumn 152, Issue , 2017, Pages 144-162

  Kornejady, Aiding ^a   Ownegh, Majid ^a   Bahremand, Abdolreza ^a  

^a GORGAN UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

GIS; Mahalanobis distance; Predictive power; Random sampling; Ziarat watershed

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; GPS; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDSLIDE; MACHINE LEARNING; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; SAMPLING; WATERSHED;

GOLESTAN; IRAN;

EID: 85009822930     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2017.01.010     Document Type: Article

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