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41 Citations
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Global Dynamic Rainfall-Induced Landslide Susceptibility Mapping Using Machine Learning

  • Bohao Li,
  • Kai Liu,
  • Ming Wang,
  • Qian He,
  • Ziyu Jiang,
  • Weihua Zhu and
  • Ningning Qiao

16 November 2022

Precipitation is the main factor that triggers landslides. Rainfall-induced landslide susceptibility mapping (LSM) is crucial for disaster prevention and disaster losses mitigation, though most studies are temporally ambiguous and on a regional scale...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,613 Views
28 Pages

15 February 2025

Large-scale and long-term landslide susceptibility assessments are crucial for revealing the patterns of landslide risk variation and for guiding the formulation of disaster prevention and mitigation policies at the national level. This study, throug...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,175 Views
25 Pages

Landslide Dynamic Susceptibility Mapping Base on Machine Learning and the PS-InSAR Coupling Model

  • Fasheng Miao,
  • Qiuyu Ruan,
  • Yiping Wu,
  • Zhao Qian,
  • Zimo Kong and
  • Zhangkui Qin

20 November 2023

Complex and fragile geological conditions combined with periodic fluctuations in reservoir water levels have led to frequent landslide disasters in the Three Gorges Reservoir area. With the development of remote sensing technology, many scholars have...

  • Article
  • Open Access
673 Views
30 Pages

17 September 2025

Dynamic susceptibility assessment is essential for mitigating evolving landslide risks in alpine gorge regions. To address the static limitations and unit mismatch issues in conventional landslide susceptibility assessments in alpine gorge regions, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,059 Views
18 Pages

28 October 2024

Earthquake-induced landslides (EQILs) represent a serious secondary disaster of earthquakes, and conducting an effective assessment of earthquake-induced landslide susceptibility (ELSA) post-earthquake is helpful in reducing risk. In light of the div...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,251 Views
34 Pages

Combining Soil Moisture and MT-InSAR Data to Evaluate Regional Landslide Susceptibility in Weining, China

  • Qing Yang,
  • Zhanqiang Chang,
  • Chou Xie,
  • Chaoyong Shen,
  • Bangsen Tian,
  • Haoran Fang,
  • Yihong Guo,
  • Yu Zhu,
  • Daoqin Zhou and
  • Xin Yao
  • + 2 authors

20 July 2023

Landslide susceptibility maps (LSMs) play an important role in landslide hazard risk assessments, urban planning, and land resource management. While states of motion and dynamic factors are critical in the landslide formation process, these factors...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,840 Views
41 Pages

Production and Analysis of a Landslide Susceptibility Map Covering Entire China

  • Guo Zhang,
  • Yutao Liu,
  • Zhenwei Chen,
  • Zixing Xu,
  • Yuan Yuan,
  • Shunyao Wang,
  • Weiqi Lian,
  • Hang Xu,
  • Zan Ding and
  • Run Wang

1 May 2025

China, with its complex geology and diverse climate, is highly prone to landslides, endangering public safety and infrastructure. To address disaster prevention needs, this study comprehensively assesses national landslide susceptibility. We divided...

  • Article
  • Open Access
825 Views
20 Pages

17 August 2025

Landslides pose persistent threats to mountainous regions in Taiwan, particularly in areas such as Nanfeng Village, Nantou County, where steep terrain and concentrated rainfall contribute to chronic slope instability. This study investigates spatiote...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,305 Views
24 Pages

19 September 2022

Amplifying landslide hazards in the backdrop of warming climate and intensifying human activities calls for an integrated framework for accurately evaluating landslide susceptibility at fine spatiotemporal resolutions, which is critical for the mitig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,533 Views
20 Pages

Landslide Susceptibility Assessment in Hong Kong with Consideration of Spatio-Temporal Consistency

  • Agen Qiu,
  • Qinglian Wang,
  • Yajun Chen,
  • Kunwang Tao,
  • Xiangyu Peng,
  • Wangjun He,
  • Lifeng Gao,
  • OU’er Geli and
  • Fuhao Zhang

18 November 2024

Landslide susceptibility is crucial for assessing the probability and severity of landslide disasters in a region. Previous studies have focused on static landslide susceptibility, using landslide assessment factor data from varying years, making it...

  • Article
  • Open Access
309 Views
21 Pages

29 September 2025

The geological environment is characterized by continuous dynamic changes. Landslide activity characteristics can reflect the geological environmental background that affects the landslide development in different historical periods. A comprehensive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,280 Views
24 Pages

Refined Landslide Susceptibility Mapping Considering Land Use Changes and InSAR Deformation: A Case Study of Yulin City, Guangxi

  • Pengfei Li,
  • Huini Wang,
  • Hongli Li,
  • Zixuan Ni,
  • Hongxing Deng,
  • Haigang Sui and
  • Guilin Xu

17 August 2024

Landslide susceptibility maps (LSMs) are valuable tools typically used by local authorities for land use management and planning activities, supporting decision-makers in urban and infrastructure planning. To address this, we proposed a refined metho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
9,150 Views
16 Pages

Landslide susceptibility depends on various causal factors such as geology, land use/land cover (LULC), slope, and elevation. Unlike other factors that are relatively stable over time, LULC is a dynamic factor associated with human activities. This s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,075 Views
33 Pages

Applications and Advancements of Spaceborne InSAR in Landslide Monitoring and Susceptibility Mapping: A Systematic Review

  • Yusen Cheng,
  • Hongli Pang,
  • Yangyang Li,
  • Lei Fan,
  • Shengjie Wei,
  • Ziwen Yuan and
  • Yinqing Fang

12 March 2025

Landslides pose significant threats to human safety and socio-economic development. In recent decades, interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) technology has emerged as a powerful tool for investigating landslides. This study systematically...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,500 Views
28 Pages

4 April 2023

Landslides are one of the most destructive and common geological disasters in the Tonglvshan mining area, which seriously threatens the safety of surrounding residents and the Tonglvshan ancient copper mine site. Therefore, to effectively reduce the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,669 Views
21 Pages

5 December 2024

Satellite-derived high-resolution soil moisture and precipitation data have become widely adopted in natural hazard and climate change research. Landslide susceptibility mapping, which often relies on static predisposing factors, faces challenges in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,371 Views
22 Pages

InSAR Integrated Machine Learning Approach for Landslide Susceptibility Mapping in California

  • Divya Sekhar Vaka,
  • Vishnuvardhan Reddy Yaragunda,
  • Skevi Perdikou and
  • Alexandra Papanicolaou

25 September 2024

Landslides pose significant threats to life and property, particularly in mountainous regions. To address this, this study develops a landslide susceptibility model integrating Earth Observation (EO) data, historical data, and Multi-Temporal Interfer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,495 Views
23 Pages

Landslide Risk Assessment Using a Combined Approach Based on InSAR and Random Forest

  • Wangcai Liu,
  • Yi Zhang,
  • Yiwen Liang,
  • Pingping Sun,
  • Yuanxi Li,
  • Xiaojun Su,
  • Aijie Wang and
  • Xingmin Meng

29 April 2022

Landslide risk assessment is important for risk management and loss–damage reduction. Herein, we assessed landslide susceptibility, hazard, and risk in the urban area of Yan’an City, which is located on the Loess Plateau of China and affe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,813 Views
23 Pages

5 August 2023

Large-scale photovoltaic power plants located in highland mountainous areas are vulnerable to landslides due to extreme rainfall, posing a significant threat to the normal operation of photovoltaic power plants. However, limited research has been con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,022 Views
20 Pages

6 August 2024

Landslide susceptibility mapping (LSM) can accurately estimate the location and probability of landslides. An effective approach for precise LSM is crucial for minimizing casualties and damage. The existing LSM methods primarily rely on static indica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,835 Views
18 Pages

23 September 2024

Climate change has recently increased the frequency of landslides in alpine areas. Susceptibility mapping is crucial for anticipating and assessing landslide risk. However, traditional methods focus on static environmental variables to emphasize the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,662 Views
39 Pages

5 February 2025

Accurate and objective regional landslide risk assessment is crucial for the precise prevention of regional disasters. This study proposes an integrated landslide risk assessment via a landslide susceptibility model based on intelligent optimization...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,138 Views
16 Pages

25 July 2024

The eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau is one of the regions with the most severe landslide disasters on a global scale. With the intensification of seismic activity around the Tibetan Plateau and the increase in extreme rainfall events, the preve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,104 Views
20 Pages

12 April 2025

Early and accurate identification of landslide-prone areas is critical for monitoring and early-warning systems, forming the foundation of disaster prevention and mitigation. However, current landslide susceptibility assessment methods often rely on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,212 Views
21 Pages

Landslide Susceptibility Prediction Based on a CNN–LSTM–SAM–Attention Hybrid Model

  • Honggang Wu,
  • Jiabi Niu,
  • Yongqiang Li,
  • Yinsheng Wang and
  • Daohong Qiu

27 June 2025

Accurate prediction of landslide susceptibility is a key component of disaster risk reduction and early warning systems. Traditional landslide susceptibility prediction methods often face challenges in capturing complex nonlinear and spatio-temporal...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,638 Views
22 Pages

12 June 2024

The geological and topographic conditions in the upper reaches of the Jinsha River are intricate, with frequent occurrences of landslides. Landslide Susceptibility Prediction (LSP) in this area is a crucial aspect of geological disaster risk manageme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,661 Views
26 Pages

25 May 2025

Landslide hazard chains pose significant threats in mountainous areas worldwide, yet their cascading effects remain insufficiently studied. This study proposes an integrated framework to systematically assess the landslide-landslide dam-outburst floo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,673 Views
23 Pages

InSAR-Driven Dynamic Landslide Hazard Mapping in Highly Vegetated Area

  • Liangxuan Yan,
  • Qianjin Xiong,
  • Deying Li,
  • Enok Cheon,
  • Xiangjie She and
  • Shuo Yang

31 August 2024

Landslide hazard mapping is important to urban construction and landslide risk management. Dynamic landslide hazard mapping considers landslide deformation with changes in the environment. It can show more details of the landslide process state. Land...

  • Article
  • Open Access
931 Views
26 Pages

Sediment Connectivity in Human-Impacted vs. Natural Conditions: A Case Study in a Landslide-Affected Catchment

  • Mohanad Ellaithy,
  • Davide Notti,
  • Daniele Giordan,
  • Marco Baldo,
  • Jad Ghantous,
  • Vincenzo Di Pietra,
  • Marco Cavalli and
  • Stefano Crema

This research aims to characterize sediment dynamics in the Rupinaro catchment, a uniquely terraced and human-shaped basin in Italy’s Liguria region, employing geomorphometric methods to unravel sediment connectivity in a landscape vulnerable t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,890 Views
17 Pages

9 January 2024

The landslide dynamics model is one of the methods for evaluating landslide motion processes, contributing to disaster prevention and mitigation. With the advancement of science and technology, GIS has become the mainstream platform for landslide sim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,351 Views
18 Pages

Dynamic Modeling of Sediment Budget in Shihmen Reservoir Watershed in Taiwan

  • Yi-Chin Chen,
  • Ying-Hsin Wu,
  • Che-Wei Shen and
  • Yu-Jia Chiu

8 December 2018

Qualifying sediment dynamic in a reservoir watershed is essential for water resource management. This study proposed an integrated model of Grid-based Sediment Production and Transport Model (GSPTM) at watershed scale to evaluate the dynamic of sedim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,813 Views
22 Pages

Graph-Represented Broad Learning System for Landslide Susceptibility Mapping in Alpine-Canyon Region

  • Lili Xu,
  • C. L. Philip Chen,
  • Feng Qing,
  • Xingmin Meng,
  • Yan Zhao,
  • Tianjun Qi and
  • Tianyao Miao

9 June 2022

Zhouqu County is located at the intersection of two active structural belts in the east of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which is a rare, high-incidence area of landslides, debris flow, and earthquakes on a global scale. The complex regional geological...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,931 Views
37 Pages

A Spatial Landslide Risk Assessment Based on Hazard, Vulnerability, Exposure, and Adaptive Capacity

  • Thong Xuan Tran,
  • Sihong Liu,
  • Hang Ha,
  • Quynh Duy Bui,
  • Long Quoc Nguyen,
  • Dinh Quoc Nguyen,
  • Cong-Ty Trinh and
  • Chinh Luu

3 November 2024

Landslides threaten human life, property, and vital infrastructure in most mountainous regions. As climate change intensifies extreme weather patterns, the landslide risk is likely to increase, resulting in challenges for disaster management, sustain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
12,136 Views
28 Pages

Developing a Dynamic Web-GIS Based Landslide Early Warning System for the Chittagong Metropolitan Area, Bangladesh

  • Bayes Ahmed,
  • Md. Shahinoor Rahman,
  • Rahenul Islam,
  • Peter Sammonds,
  • Chao Zhou,
  • Kabir Uddin and
  • Tahmeed M. Al-Hussaini

This article aims to develop a Web-GIS based landslide early warning system (EWS) for the Chittagong Metropolitan Area (CMA), Bangladesh, where, in recent years, rainfall-induced landslides have caused great losses of lives and property. A method for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
3,369 Views
28 Pages

Tempo-Spatial Landslide Susceptibility Assessment from the Perspective of Human Engineering Activity

  • Taorui Zeng,
  • Zizheng Guo,
  • Linfeng Wang,
  • Bijing Jin,
  • Fayou Wu and
  • Rujun Guo

21 August 2023

The expansion of mountainous urban areas and road networks can influence the terrain, vegetation, and material characteristics, thereby altering the susceptibility of landslides. Understanding the relationship between human engineering activities and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,401 Views
23 Pages

Landslide Hazard Assessment Combined with InSAR Deformation: A Case Study in the Zagunao River Basin, Sichuan Province, Southwestern China

  • Yunfeng Shan,
  • Zhou Xu,
  • Shengsen Zhou,
  • Huiyan Lu,
  • Wenlong Yu,
  • Zhigang Li,
  • Xiong Cao,
  • Pengfei Li and
  • Weile Li

26 December 2023

Landslides are common natural disasters that cause serious damage to ecosystems and human societies. To effectively prevent and mitigate these disasters, an accurate assessment of landslide hazards is necessary. However, most traditional landslide ha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,951 Views
25 Pages

Landslide Susceptibility Mapping under the Climate Change Impact in the Chania Regional Unit, West Crete, Greece

  • Constantinos Nefros,
  • Dimitrios S. Tsagkas,
  • Gianna Kitsara,
  • Constantinos Loupasakis and
  • Christos Giannakopoulos

3 January 2023

Over the preceding decades, climate change has affected precipitation, the most common factor triggering landslides. The aim of this study is to highlight this impact by examining the precipitation trends in the Chania regional unit, Greece, with the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,813 Views
25 Pages

Rain-Induced Shallow Landslide Susceptibility Under Multiple Scenarios Based on Effective Antecedent Precipitation

  • Chuanmei Cheng,
  • Ying Li,
  • Dong Zhu,
  • Yu Liu,
  • Yongqiu Wu,
  • Degen Lin and
  • Hao Guo

1 June 2025

Precipitation typically leads to the accumulation of soil moisture, which causes slope instability and triggers landslides. However, due to the lag nature of this process, landslides usually do not occur on the day of heavy rainfall. Therefore, it is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,416 Views
21 Pages

15 October 2022

Storm Vaia on 29 October 2018, hit northeastern Italy and produced extensive damage in the immediacy of the event, including extensive tree felling in some places, as well as debris flow or earth flow landslides. This study aims to assess the suscept...

  • Article
  • Open Access
422 Views
16 Pages

Landslides are a major natural hazard capable of causing severe damage to infrastructure, ecosystems, and human life. They result from complex interactions of geological, hydrological, and environmental factors, with soil properties playing a crucial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,150 Views
23 Pages

Landslides Triggered by the May 2017 Extreme Rainfall Event in the East Coast Northeast of Brazil

  • Nikolai S. Espinoza,
  • Carlos A. C. dos Santos,
  • Madson T. Silva,
  • Helber B. Gomes,
  • Rosaria R. Ferreira,
  • Maria L. da Silva,
  • Cláudio M. Santos e Silva,
  • Cristiano P. de Oliveira,
  • João Medeiros and
  • Jason Giovannettone
  • + 3 authors

27 September 2021

Given the increasing occurrence of landslides on the East Coast Northeast of Brazil (ECNEB), it is essential to understand its conditions and triggering factors because meteorological anomalies triggered by a landslide will threaten life and property...

  • Article
  • Open Access
735 Views
24 Pages

6 July 2025

This study investigates the influence of root cohesion spatial heterogeneity on rainfall-induced landslide distribution across the Loess Plateau, addressing limitations in existing methods that oversimplify root reinforcement. Leveraging Landsat and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,212 Views
27 Pages

7 June 2024

Rainfall-induced landslides are a major hazard in the Three Gorges Reservoir area (TGRA) of China, encompassing 19 districts and counties with extensive coverage and significant spatial variation in terrain. This study introduces the Gradient Boostin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,188 Views
14 Pages

This study investigates co-seismic landslides triggered by the 1 January 2024 Mw 7.6 Noto Peninsula earthquake in Japan using LiDAR differentiation and a modified Savage–Hutter model. By analyzing pre- and post-earthquake high-resolution topogr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,596 Views
18 Pages

Landslide Risk Mapping in an Urban Area of the City of Natal, Brazil

  • Laddyla Bezerra,
  • Osvaldo de Freitas Neto,
  • Olavo Santos and
  • Slobodan Mickovski

18 November 2020

Landslides are part of the natural processes of Earth’s surface dynamic, which could be accelerated or triggered by anthropic interference. Inadequate occupation of areas highly susceptible to landslide processes is the principal cause of accid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
7,882 Views
28 Pages

Geodetic and UAV Monitoring in the Sustainable Management of Shallow Landslides and Erosion of a Susceptible Urban Environment

  • Paul Sestras,
  • Ștefan Bilașco,
  • Sanda Roșca,
  • Branislav Dudic,
  • Artan Hysa and
  • Velibor Spalević

22 January 2021

Landslides are a worldwide occurring hazard that can produce economic impact and even fatalities. The collection and monitoring of data regarding active landslides are important for predicting future landslides in that region, and is critical to mini...

  • Article
  • Open Access
769 Views
32 Pages

30 July 2025

The Mw 7.8 Gorkha Earthquake of 25 April 2015 triggered over 25,000 landslides across central Nepal, with 4775 events concentrated in Gorkha District alone. Despite substantial advances in landslide susceptibility mapping, existing studies often over...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,901 Views
24 Pages

Landslide Susceptibility Assessment Using a CNN–BiLSTM-AM Model

  • Xiaoxiao Ju,
  • Junjie Li,
  • Chongxiang Sun and
  • Bo Li

31 October 2024

Landslides are common geological hazards worldwide, posing significant threats to both the environment and human lives. The preparation of a landslides susceptibility map is a major method to address the challenge related to sustainability. The study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,559 Views
22 Pages

Intrinsic Environmental Vulnerability as Shallow Landslide Susceptibility in Environmental Impact Assessment

  • Laura Turconi,
  • Fabio Luino,
  • Mattia Gussoni,
  • Francesco Faccini,
  • Marco Giardino and
  • Marco Casazza

8 November 2019

This work investigated the susceptibility factors that trigger shallow landslides. In particular, the objective of the research was the implementation of a method to determine the relevant factors that can trigger shallow landslide events. However, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,371 Views
24 Pages

Landslide Risks to Bridges in Valleys in North Carolina

  • Sophia Lin,
  • Shen-En Chen,
  • Wenwu Tang,
  • Vidya Chavan,
  • Navanit Shanmugam,
  • Craig Allan and
  • John Diemer

21 March 2024

This research delves into the intricate dynamics of landslides, emphasizing their consequences on transportation infrastructure, specifically highways and roadway bridges in North Carolina. Based on a prior investigation of bridges in Puerto Rico aft...

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