Determination of Important Topographic Factors for Landslide Mapping Analysis Using MLP Network

Landslide is one of the natural disasters that occur in Malaysia. Topographic factors such as elevation, slope angle, slope aspect, general curvature, plan curvature, and profile curvature are considered as the main causes of landslides. In order to determine the dominant topographic factors in la...

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Main Authors: Alkhasawneh, Mutasem Sh., Ngah, Umi Kalthum, Lea, Tien Tay, Mat Isa, Nor Ashidi, Al-batah, Mohammad Subhi
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spelling my.usm.eprints.38647 http://eprints.usm.my/38647/ Determination of Important Topographic Factors for Landslide Mapping Analysis Using MLP Network Alkhasawneh, Mutasem Sh. Ngah, Umi Kalthum Lea, Tien Tay Mat Isa, Nor Ashidi Al-batah, Mohammad Subhi TK1-9971 Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering Landslide is one of the natural disasters that occur in Malaysia. Topographic factors such as elevation, slope angle, slope aspect, general curvature, plan curvature, and profile curvature are considered as the main causes of landslides. In order to determine the dominant topographic factors in landslide mapping analysis, a study was conducted and presented in this paper. There are three main stages involved in this study. The first stage is the extraction of extra topographic factors. Previous landslide studies had identified mainly six topographic factors. Seven new additional factors have been proposed in this study.They are longitude curvature, tangential curvature, cross section curvature, surface area, diagonal line length, surface roughness, and rugosity. The second stage is the specification of the weight of each factor using two methods. The methods are multilayer perceptron (MLP) network classification accuracy and Zhou’s algorithm. At the third stage, the factors with higher weights were used to improve the MLP performance. Out of the thirteen factors, eight factors were considered as important factors, which are surface area, longitude curvature, diagonal length, slope angle, elevation, slope aspect, rugosity, and profile curvature.Theclassification accuracy of multilayer perceptron neural network has increased by 3% after the elimination of five less important factors. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/38647/1/Determination_of_Important_Topographic_Factors_for_Landslide_Mapping_Analysis_Using_MLP_Network.pdf Alkhasawneh, Mutasem Sh. and Ngah, Umi Kalthum and Lea, Tien Tay and Mat Isa, Nor Ashidi and Al-batah, Mohammad Subhi (2013) Determination of Important Topographic Factors for Landslide Mapping Analysis Using MLP Network. Scientific World Journal, 2013 (415023). pp. 1-12. ISSN 2356-6140 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/415023
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topic TK1-9971 Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle TK1-9971 Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Alkhasawneh, Mutasem Sh.
Ngah, Umi Kalthum
Lea, Tien Tay
Mat Isa, Nor Ashidi
Al-batah, Mohammad Subhi
Determination of Important Topographic Factors for Landslide Mapping Analysis Using MLP Network
description Landslide is one of the natural disasters that occur in Malaysia. Topographic factors such as elevation, slope angle, slope aspect, general curvature, plan curvature, and profile curvature are considered as the main causes of landslides. In order to determine the dominant topographic factors in landslide mapping analysis, a study was conducted and presented in this paper. There are three main stages involved in this study. The first stage is the extraction of extra topographic factors. Previous landslide studies had identified mainly six topographic factors. Seven new additional factors have been proposed in this study.They are longitude curvature, tangential curvature, cross section curvature, surface area, diagonal line length, surface roughness, and rugosity. The second stage is the specification of the weight of each factor using two methods. The methods are multilayer perceptron (MLP) network classification accuracy and Zhou’s algorithm. At the third stage, the factors with higher weights were used to improve the MLP performance. Out of the thirteen factors, eight factors were considered as important factors, which are surface area, longitude curvature, diagonal length, slope angle, elevation, slope aspect, rugosity, and profile curvature.Theclassification accuracy of multilayer perceptron neural network has increased by 3% after the elimination of five less important factors.
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author Alkhasawneh, Mutasem Sh.
Ngah, Umi Kalthum
Lea, Tien Tay
Mat Isa, Nor Ashidi
Al-batah, Mohammad Subhi
author_facet Alkhasawneh, Mutasem Sh.
Ngah, Umi Kalthum
Lea, Tien Tay
Mat Isa, Nor Ashidi
Al-batah, Mohammad Subhi
author_sort Alkhasawneh, Mutasem Sh.
title Determination of Important Topographic Factors for Landslide Mapping Analysis Using MLP Network
title_short Determination of Important Topographic Factors for Landslide Mapping Analysis Using MLP Network
title_full Determination of Important Topographic Factors for Landslide Mapping Analysis Using MLP Network
title_fullStr Determination of Important Topographic Factors for Landslide Mapping Analysis Using MLP Network
title_full_unstemmed Determination of Important Topographic Factors for Landslide Mapping Analysis Using MLP Network
title_sort determination of important topographic factors for landslide mapping analysis using mlp network
publisher Hindawi Publishing Corporation
publishDate 2013
url http://eprints.usm.my/38647/1/Determination_of_Important_Topographic_Factors_for_Landslide_Mapping_Analysis_Using_MLP_Network.pdf
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