In June 1990, the Fall Creek area east of Enderby, B.C., experienced about 66 landslides. These landslides impacted forested slopes and forestry roads, destroyed several BC Hydro transmission towers, damaged and destroyed houses, and cut off highway access to the area, resulting in the evacuation of residents. These slides also destroyed a fi sh farm, several licensed water intakes, and impacte...

In northern parts of Iran such as the Alborz Mountain belt, frequent landslides occur due to a combination of climate and geologic conditions with high tectonic activities. This results in millions of dollars of financial damages annually excluding casualties and unrecoverable resources. This paper evaluates the landslide susceptible areas in Central Alborz using the probabilistic frequency rat...

This paper presents an integrated approach to landslide research based on remote sensing and sensor networks. This approach is composed of three important parts: (i) landslide susceptibility mapping using remote-sensing techniques for susceptible determination of landslide spots; (ii) scaled-down landslide simulation experiments for validation of sensor network for landslide monitoring, and (ii...

This paper proposes a decision treemodel for specifying the importance of 21 factors causing the landslides in a wide area of Penang Island, Malaysia. These factors are vegetation cover, distance from the fault line, slope angle, cross curvature, slope aspect, distance from road, geology, diagonal length, longitude curvature, rugosity, plan curvature, elevation, rain perception, soil texture, s...

The aim of the study is to confirm the importance of discriminate different types of slope movements for a better landslide susceptibility evaluation. The study was applied to the sample area of Calhandriz (11.3 km2) in the area North of Lisbon. Sixty shallow translational slides, 23 deeper translational movements and 19 rotational movements were selected for statistical analysis. Landslide sus...

Landslide is a type of mass movement that causes damage in many areas. The evolving remote sensing technology in producing high resolution images may help in landslide studies. However, the problem in detecting small size landslides is still challenging when suitable image resolution of the area being analyzed is not available. In this paper, a novel method based on elastic image registration, ...