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Landslide susceptibility mapping using image satellite and GIS technology

Landslides are among the great destructive factors which cause lots of fatalities and financial losses all over the world every year. The aim of the research was landslide susceptibility mapping by remote sensing data processing and GIS spatial analysis. The area study in research is central Zab bas...

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Main Authors: Shahabi, Himan, Ahmad, Baharin, Khezri, Saeed
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Published: ESRSA Publications Pvt. Ltd. 2012
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G Geography (General)
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/31051/
https://www.ijert.org/browse/volume-1-2012/august-2012-edition
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spelling my.utm.310512018-11-30T07:09:30Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/31051/ Landslide susceptibility mapping using image satellite and GIS technology Shahabi, Himan Ahmad, Baharin Khezri, Saeed G Geography (General) Landslides are among the great destructive factors which cause lots of fatalities and financial losses all over the world every year. The aim of the research was landslide susceptibility mapping by remote sensing data processing and GIS spatial analysis. The area study in research is central Zab basin in west Azerbaijan province, Iran. In this research, through geological maps and field studies,we primarily prepared a map for landslide distributions in Zab basin. Then, applying other information sources such as the existing thematic maps, we studied and defined the 8 factors such as, lithology, slope, slope aspect, annual rainfall, land use, distance to waterway, distance to the fault, and distance to road. That affect occurrence of the landslides. To get more precision,speed and facility in our analysis all descriptive and spatial information was entered into GIS system. After preparation of the needed information layers by influential parameters on landslides, we drew the zoning maps of landslide hazard via information coming from satellite image classification (Quickbird, Ikonos), and then evaluated and compared them. According to the obtained index, and the comparison of landslide distribution map and zoning map of landslide hazard prepared by each of the methods in GIS environment. This model gives also indications about the relevant factors influencing slope instability. ESRSA Publications Pvt. Ltd. 2012-08 Article PeerReviewed Shahabi, Himan and Ahmad, Baharin and Khezri, Saeed (2012) Landslide susceptibility mapping using image satellite and GIS technology. International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology (IJERT), 1 (6). pp. 1-5. ISSN 2278-0181 https://www.ijert.org/browse/volume-1-2012/august-2012-edition
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topic G Geography (General)
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Shahabi, Himan
Ahmad, Baharin
Khezri, Saeed
Landslide susceptibility mapping using image satellite and GIS technology
description Landslides are among the great destructive factors which cause lots of fatalities and financial losses all over the world every year. The aim of the research was landslide susceptibility mapping by remote sensing data processing and GIS spatial analysis. The area study in research is central Zab basin in west Azerbaijan province, Iran. In this research, through geological maps and field studies,we primarily prepared a map for landslide distributions in Zab basin. Then, applying other information sources such as the existing thematic maps, we studied and defined the 8 factors such as, lithology, slope, slope aspect, annual rainfall, land use, distance to waterway, distance to the fault, and distance to road. That affect occurrence of the landslides. To get more precision,speed and facility in our analysis all descriptive and spatial information was entered into GIS system. After preparation of the needed information layers by influential parameters on landslides, we drew the zoning maps of landslide hazard via information coming from satellite image classification (Quickbird, Ikonos), and then evaluated and compared them. According to the obtained index, and the comparison of landslide distribution map and zoning map of landslide hazard prepared by each of the methods in GIS environment. This model gives also indications about the relevant factors influencing slope instability.
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author Shahabi, Himan
Ahmad, Baharin
Khezri, Saeed
author_facet Shahabi, Himan
Ahmad, Baharin
Khezri, Saeed
author_sort Shahabi, Himan
title Landslide susceptibility mapping using image satellite and GIS technology
title_short Landslide susceptibility mapping using image satellite and GIS technology
title_full Landslide susceptibility mapping using image satellite and GIS technology
title_fullStr Landslide susceptibility mapping using image satellite and GIS technology
title_full_unstemmed Landslide susceptibility mapping using image satellite and GIS technology
title_sort landslide susceptibility mapping using image satellite and gis technology
publisher ESRSA Publications Pvt. Ltd.
publishDate 2012
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/31051/
https://www.ijert.org/browse/volume-1-2012/august-2012-edition
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