Inspired by two practical cases in Switzerland, the paper investigates a problem of elevated earth pressures downslope existing landslides. This is relevant for both permanent landslides and one-time events, particular interest area stable slope just below landslide high-pressure compression zone. Intuitively, there should be transition zone, within which high subside to far field (at rest) slo...

Detecting landslides and monitoring their activity is of great relevance for natural hazard assessment and disaster prevention in hilly areas. Very high resolution optical satellite data is now becoming available, and to evaluate the potential application of these new images to detect ground surface changes as a result of landsliding, in previous work we developed and applied change detection a...

This research presents the results of the GIS-based statistical models for generation of landslide susceptibility mapping using geographic information system (GIS) and remote-sensing data for Cameron Highlands area in Malaysia. Ten factors including slope, aspect, soil, lithology, NDVI, land cover, distance to drainage, precipitation, distance to fault, and distance to road were extracted from ...

This study investigates and demonstrates the state of the art in remote sensing techniques for detailed landslide hazard assessment applicable to large areas. Since the most common methods of landslide hazard assessment using simple inventories and weighted overlays are heavily dependent on three-dimensional terrain visualization and analysis, stereo satellite images from the IKONOS Very High R...

Landslides are a common type of natural disaster in mountainous areas. As a result of the comprehensive influences of geology, geomorphology and climatic conditions, the susceptibility to landslide hazards in mountainous areas shows obvious regionalism. The evaluation of regional landslide susceptibility can help reduce the risk to the lives of mountain residents. In this paper, the Shannon ent...

Collecting information on landslide occurrence and activity over wide areas is a crucial task for landslide hazard assessment. Field techniques, despite being very precise, are usually not sufficient to achieve this goal, since they mostly provide pointbased measurements. Mainly because of its synoptic view and its capability for repetitive observations, optical (visible-infrared) remotely sens...