The Ms 8.0 Wenchuan earthquake, occurred on 12 May 2008 in Sichuan Province, caused enormous property damages and human casualties. Right now, the secondary disasters caused by strong earthquake, especially landslides, have drawn much attention in the affected area. For this reason, it is necessary to research on susceptibility assessment in Wenchuan which is helpful to decrease landslide damag...

Changes in climate and land use pose a risk to stability of alpine soils, but the direction and magnitude of the impact is still discussed controversially with respect to the various alpine regions. In this study, we explicitly consider the influence of dynamic human-induced changes on the occurrence of landslides in addition to natural factors. Our hypothesis was that if changes in land use an...

Conservation and restoration priorities often focus on separate ecosystem problems. Inspired by the November 11th (2011) landslide event near Manizales, and the current poor results of Colombia's Article 111 of Law 99 of 1993 as a conservation measure in this country, we set out to prioritize conservation and restoration areas where landslide prevention would complement bird conservation in the...

The Longzi River Basin in Tibet is located along the edge of the Himalaya Mountains and is characterized by complex geological conditions and numerous landslides. To evaluate the susceptibility of landslide disasters in this area, eight basic factors were analyzed comprehensively in order to obtain a final susceptibility map. The eight factors are the slope angle, slope aspect, plan curvature, ...

Rapid mapping of fresh landslides is a necessity for efficient post-disaster response and updating of landslide inventories and susceptibility and hazard maps, and the increasing availability of very high resolution (VHR) remote sensing data has been facilitating such efforts. Fresh landslide scars are predominantly detected based on their strong spectral contrast to their surroundings, in part...

The effect of landslide and its consequences always impact negatively on the inhabitants of a certain region or zone. The overall damage of socioeconomic structure and loss of human lives always a matter of concern. Numerous approaches of landslide susceptibility mapping, hazard analysis have been developed and in most cases remote sensing, Geographical Information System (GIS) remains the core...

Although typically small in terms of their spatial footprint, landslide hazards are relatively frequent in Northern Iran. In this study, we combine Geographic Information System (GIS), remote sensing and derive a landscape susceptibility map for Bostan Abad County, Iran. The main objective is an inventory evaluation and zonation of natural landslides. This 2685 square kilometer sized county is ...