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Geospatial Technologies for Landslide Inventory: Application and Analysis to Earthquake-Triggered Landslide of Sindhupalchowk, Nepal

  • Acharya, Tri Dev;Yang, In Tae;Lee, Dong Ha
    • Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.95-106
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    • 2016
  • Landslide is one of the natural hazards, triggered by rainfall or earthquake and it leads to damage and loss of properties and lives especially in hilly and mountainous regions. Inventory maps of the area is of much importance in order to understand the landslide phenomena in detail, conduct further studies on landslide, prepare susceptibility map and minimize risk. Inventory maps of landslides can be constructed by several methods, using multiple images through visual interpretation, using algorithms in multi-spectral or SAR images or verification from field investigation. The possible methods were explored for Sindhupalchowk district of Nepal, which was struck by massive earthquake on 2015 and landslide inventory was prepared. The inventory was analyzed for its frequency over elevation, slope aspect and dominant soil classes and also the information value for their occurrence probability.