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27 June 2025

Data bias in geohazard artificial intelligence (AI) systems, particularly class distribution imbalances, critically undermines the reliability of landslide detection models. While active learning (AL) offers promise for mitigating annotation costs an...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,255 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...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,123 Views
18 Pages

Susceptibility Assessment of Landslides in the Loess Plateau Based on Machine Learning Models: A Case Study of Xining City

  • Li He,
  • Xiantan Wu,
  • Zhengwei He,
  • Dongjian Xue,
  • Fang Luo,
  • Wenqian Bai,
  • Guichuan Kang,
  • Xin Chen and
  • Yuxiang Zhang

11 October 2023

Landslide susceptibility assessment can effectively predict the spatial distribution of potential landslides, which is of great significance in fields such as geological disaster prevention, urban planning, etc. Taking Xining City as an example, base...

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  • Open Access
53 Citations
6,681 Views
21 Pages

28 June 2016

This study focused on landslide susceptibility analysis mapping of the Xulong hydropower station reservoir, which is located in the upstream of Jinsha River, a rapidly uplifting region of the Tibetan Plateau region. Nine factors were employed as land...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,664 Views
19 Pages

28 November 2023

Landslide susceptibility mapping is typically based on binary prediction probabilities. However, non-landslide samples in modeling datasets are often unlabeled data, and the phenomenon of class-priori shift, that is, the proportion of landslide sampl...

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  • Open Access
235 Views
31 Pages

Cross-Domain Landslide Mapping in Remote Sensing Images Based on Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Framework

  • Jing Yang,
  • Mingtao Ding,
  • Wubiao Huang,
  • Qiang Xue,
  • Ying Dong,
  • Bo Chen,
  • Lulu Peng,
  • Fuling Zhang and
  • Zhenhong Li

15 January 2026

Rapid and accurate acquisition of landslide inventories is essential for effective disaster relief. Deep learning-based pixel-wise semantic segmentation of remote sensing imagery has greatly advanced in landslide mapping. However, the heavy dependanc...

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  • Open Access
41 Citations
9,561 Views
22 Pages

The 3 August 2014 Ludian earthquake with a moment magnitude scale (Mw) of 6.1 induced widespread landslides in the Ludian County and its vicinity. This paper presents a preliminary analysis of the distribution patterns and characteristics of these co...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,839 Views
24 Pages

Landslide Prediction with Model Switching

  • Darmawan Utomo,
  • Shi-Feng Chen and
  • Pao-Ann Hsiung

4 May 2019

Landslides could cause huge damages to properties and severe loss of lives. Landslides can be detected by analyzing the environmental data collected by wireless sensor networks (WSNs). However, environmental data are usually complex and undergo rapid...

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  • Open Access
45 Citations
5,463 Views
28 Pages

Shallow landslides are destructive hazards and play an important role in landscape processes. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the shallow landslide susceptibility and to investigate which predisposing factors control the spatial distribution...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,613 Views
15 Pages

The applicability of main scarp upper edge (MSUE) as dependent variable representation was performed in a translational slide susceptibility zonation of the Milia and Roglio basins, Italy. Two landslide inventories were built thanks to detailed geomo...

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  • Open Access
64 Citations
6,173 Views
17 Pages

Landslide susceptibility mapping is the first and most important step involved in landslide hazard assessment. The purpose of the present study is to compare three nonlinear approaches for landslide susceptibility mapping and test whether coal mining...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,545 Views
21 Pages

27 December 2023

Heavy rainfall is a major factor for landslide triggering. Here, we present an inventory of 47,523 landslides triggered by two precipitation episodes that occurred in May 2023 in the Emilia-Romagna and conterminous regions (Italy). The landslides are...

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  • Open Access
129 Citations
6,988 Views
39 Pages

To compare the random forest (RF) model and the frequency ratio (FR) model for landslide susceptibility mapping (LSM), this research selected Yunyang Country as the study area for its frequent natural disasters; especially landslides. A landslide inv...

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  • Open Access
107 Citations
11,618 Views
30 Pages

Automated Spatiotemporal Landslide Mapping over Large Areas Using RapidEye Time Series Data

  • Robert Behling,
  • Sigrid Roessner,
  • Hermann Kaufmann and
  • Birgit Kleinschmit

27 August 2014

In the past, different approaches for automated landslide identification based on multispectral satellite remote sensing were developed to focus on the analysis of the spatial distribution of landslide occurrences related to distinct triggering event...

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  • Open Access
64 Citations
5,432 Views
32 Pages

10 September 2021

Although numerous models have been employed to address the issue of landslide susceptibility at regional scale, few have incorporated landslide typology into a model application. Thus, the aim of the present study is to perform landslide susceptibili...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,396 Views
22 Pages

The purpose of this paper was to produce the geological hazard-susceptibility map for the Changbai Mountain area affected by volcanic activity. First, 159 landslides and 72 debris flows were mapped in the Helong city are based on the geological disas...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,244 Views
20 Pages

In this study, we use GIS and other analytical platforms to analyze the landslide distribution pattern in the July 2018 heavy rain disasters in the southern part of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan in conjunction with chronological XRAIN (eXtended Radar...

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  • Open Access
38 Citations
6,969 Views
28 Pages

23 March 2019

In recent decades, the Entella River basin (eastern Liguria) has been affected by several rainfall events that induced widespread shallow landslides and earth flows on the slopes; roads, buildings, structures and infrastructure suffered extensive dam...

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  • Open Access
44 Citations
8,378 Views
17 Pages

Landslide Susceptibility Mapping Based on Selected Optimal Combination of Landslide Predisposing Factors in a Large Catchment

  • Qianqian Wang,
  • Dongchuan Wang,
  • Yong Huang,
  • Zhiheng Wang,
  • Lihui Zhang,
  • Qiaozhen Guo,
  • Wei Chen,
  • Wengang Chen and
  • Mengqin Sang

17 December 2015

Landslides are usually initiated under complex geological conditions. It is of great significance to find out the optimal combination of predisposing factors and create an accurate landslide susceptibility map based on them. In this paper, the Inform...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,884 Views
23 Pages

Using Persistent Scatterer Interferometry for Post-Earthquake Landslide Susceptibility Mapping in Jiuzhaigou

  • Haoran Fang,
  • Yun Shao,
  • Chou Xie,
  • Bangsen Tian,
  • Yu Zhu,
  • Yihong Guo,
  • Qing Yang and
  • Ying Yang

14 September 2022

Earthquakes cause a huge number of landslides and alter the regional landslide risk distribution. As a result, after a significant earthquake, the landslide susceptibility maps (LSMs) must be updated. The study goal was to create seismic landslide su...

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  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,852 Views
26 Pages

3 April 2022

As a result of the influence of plate movement, the upper reaches of Jinsha River have strong geological tectonic activities, large topographic fluctuations, and complex climate characteristics, which result in the frequent occurrence of landslide di...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,521 Views
28 Pages

13 October 2023

To enable the accurate assessment of landslide susceptibility in the upper reaches of the Minjiang River Basin, this research intends to spatially compare landslide susceptibility maps obtained from unclassified landslides directly and the spatial su...

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  • Open Access
70 Citations
9,262 Views
18 Pages

7 May 2020

This study aims to identify the vulnerable landscape areas using landslide frequency ratio and land-use change associated soil erosion hazard by employing geo-informatics techniques and the revised universal soil loss equation (RUSLE) model. Required...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,972 Views
22 Pages

Landslide Risk Assessment in Eastern Kentucky, USA: Developing a Regional Scale, Limited Resource Approach

  • Matthew M. Crawford,
  • Jason M. Dortch,
  • Hudson J. Koch,
  • Yichuan Zhu,
  • William C. Haneberg,
  • Zhenming Wang and
  • L. Sebastian Bryson

9 December 2022

Rapidly changing remote sensing technologies (lidar, aerial photography, satellites) provide opportunities to improve regional-scale landslide risk mapping. However, data limitations regarding landslide hazard and exposure data influence how landslid...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,114 Views
13 Pages

Using Public Landslide Inventories for Landslide Susceptibility Assessment at the Basin Scale: Application to the Torto River Basin (Central-Northern Sicily, Italy)

  • Chiara Martinello,
  • Claudio Mercurio,
  • Chiara Cappadonia,
  • Viviana Bellomo,
  • Andrea Conte,
  • Giampiero Mineo,
  • Giulia Di Frisco,
  • Grazia Azzara,
  • Margherita Bufalini and
  • Edoardo Rotigliano
  • + 1 author

21 August 2023

In statistical landslide susceptibility evaluation, the quality of the model and its prediction image heavily depends on the quality of the landslide inventories used for calibration. However, regional-scale inventories made available by public terri...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,262 Views
24 Pages

23 January 2025

The phenomenon of landslide spatial aggregation is widespread in nature, which can affect the result of landslide susceptibility prediction (LSP). In order to eliminate the uncertainty caused by landslide spatial aggregation in an LSP study, research...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
659 Views
25 Pages

11 November 2025

Landslides are among the most common geological hazards in mountainous regions, posing significant threats to resident safety and infrastructure stability. Due to the complexity of terrain and the difficulty of field surveys, landslide samples in the...

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  • Open Access
36 Citations
5,305 Views
20 Pages

Shaping Sustainable Urban Environments by Addressing the Hydro-Meteorological Factors in Landslide Occurrence: Ciuperca Hill (Oradea, Romania)

  • Cezar Morar,
  • Tin Lukić,
  • Biljana Basarin,
  • Aleksandar Valjarević,
  • Miroslav Vujičić,
  • Lyudmila Niemets,
  • Ievgeniia Telebienieva,
  • Lajos Boros and
  • Gyula Nagy

Romania is one of the countries severely affected by numerous natural hazards, where landslides constitute a very common geomorphic hazard with strong economic and social impacts. The analyzed area, known as the “Ciuperca Hill”, is located in Oradea...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,076 Views
23 Pages

24 June 2025

Landslide susceptibility assessment (LSA) plays a pivotal role in regional disaster prevention, particularly in southeastern Tibet, where frequent landslides pose significant threats to human safety and critical infrastructure. However, current LSA a...

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  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,375 Views
26 Pages

Geohazards Susceptibility Assessment along the Upper Indus Basin Using Four Machine Learning and Statistical Models

  • Hilal Ahmad,
  • Chen Ningsheng,
  • Mahfuzur Rahman,
  • Md Monirul Islam,
  • Hamid Reza Pourghasemi,
  • Syed Fahad Hussain,
  • Jules Maurice Habumugisha,
  • Enlong Liu,
  • Han Zheng and
  • Ashraf Dewan
  • + 1 author

The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project passes through the Karakoram Highway in northern Pakistan, which is one of the most hazardous regions of the world. The most common hazards in this region are landslides and debris flows, which resu...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,470 Views
23 Pages

21 November 2023

The protection of heritage building communities is of important historical significance, the occurrence of a landslide is related to the safety and stability of the heritage building, and ground monitoring and forecasting are the key steps for the ea...

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  • Open Access
73 Citations
7,694 Views
31 Pages

Multi-Hazard Susceptibility Assessment Using the Analytical Hierarchy Process and Frequency Ratio Techniques in the Northwest Himalayas, Pakistan

  • Adnanul Rehman,
  • Jinxi Song,
  • Fazlul Haq,
  • Shakeel Mahmood,
  • Muhammad Irfan Ahamad,
  • Muhammad Basharat,
  • Muhammad Sajid and
  • Muhammad Sajid Mehmood

24 January 2022

Globally, natural hazards have become more destructive in recent times because of rapid urban development and exposure. Consequently, significant human life loss, the damage to property and infrastructure, and the collapse of the environment directed...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,566 Views
39 Pages

Learning Ground Displacement Signals Directly from InSAR-Wrapped Interferograms

  • Lama Moualla,
  • Alessio Rucci,
  • Giampiero Naletto and
  • Nantheera Anantrasirichai

20 April 2024

Monitoring ground displacements identifies potential geohazard risks early before they cause critical damage. Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) is one of the techniques that can monitor these displacements with sub-millimeter accuracy....