scholarly journals GIS-based assessment of landslide susceptibility using certainty factor and index of entropy models for the Qianyang County of Baoji city, China

2015 ◽  
Vol 124 (7) ◽  
pp. 1399-1415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiqing Wang ◽  
Wenping Li ◽  
Wei Chen ◽  
Hanying Bai
Keyword(s):  
Landslide Susceptibility ◽  
Certainty Factor ◽  
Index Of Entropy

scholarly journals GIS based Landslides Susceptibility Mapping using Probabilistic Certainty Factor for Hazard Zonation in Mandakini Valley

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 398-404
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Landslide Susceptibility ◽  
Catchment Area ◽  
Susceptibility Mapping ◽  
Landslide Susceptibility Mapping ◽  
Susceptibility Map ◽  
Hazard Zonation ◽  
Certainty Factor ◽  
Landslide Susceptibility Map ◽  
Risk Zonation

Landslides are highly threatening a phenomenon which is very common in hilly region and mountainous regions. These landslides trigger major risks leading to heavy losses in terms of life and property. Many studies were conducted globally to determine Landslide vulnerability of different locations. In order to assess vulnerability, there were few studies around Landslides Susceptibility mapping also whose main objective is to identify high-risk vulnerable areas, there by applying measure to reduce the damage caused, if it were to happen in near future. In literature, there are many methods available for predictive susceptibility mapping of landslides. However, identification of any of the prevalent method for a specific area require utmost care and prudence because land sliding is a result of complex geo-environmental spatial factors. Mandakini valley is highly ruggedized terrain with intensive rains during monsoon season. As a result, Landslides are very common in the Mandakini River valley and its catchment area. These landslides cause severe damage to human settlements and infrastructure present in this area. In this study, we have used certainty factor method in order to generate landslide susceptibility map for the catchment area of Mandakini river. Certainty factor approach is a bi-variate probabilistic method which uses Geo-environmental parameters like elevation, slope, aspect, rainfall distance away from river, soil characteristics etc. to generate landslide susceptibility map. A Script was developed in ArcPy - a python package to design tools for generating susceptibility map. These tools can run both at desktop level and at server level and generate results in an integrated way. Esri ArcMap 10.7 is used in order to generate required data layers and thematic maps. Overall, this paper leverages GIS technology and its tools to performs Landslide Susceptibility Mapping using Probabilistic Certainty Factor and generate Hazard Zonation of Mandakini Valley using an automated script for generating Landslide Susceptibility Mapping and Hazard Risk Zonation. It was found that out of 696, total 136 villages are under high risk of landsides, total 329 villages are under moderate risks and around 231 villages are under low risk zonation impacting lives of approx. 216166 people. Also, it is worth mentioning that a GIS based script was developed to automate generation of Landslide Susceptibility Maps which can be used where the same geological and topographical feature prevails.

The Comparison Between Certainty Factor Method and Index of Entropy Method For Landslide Hazard Assessment: South Western Chamba District, Himachal Pradesh, India

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Desh Deepak Pandey ◽  
Rajeshwar Singh Banshtu ◽  
Ambrish Kumar Mahajan ◽  
Laxmi Devi Versain
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Entropy Method ◽  
Landslide Hazard ◽  
Hazard Zonation ◽  
Landslide Hazard Zonation ◽  
Certainty Factor ◽  
Factor Method ◽  
Index Of Entropy ◽  
Causative Factors ◽  
Zonation Maps

Abstract The present study reflects the contributions of geo-environmental factors that were analyzed for the development of landslide hazard zonation map using certainty factor method and index of entropy method. Heavy rainfall, unscientific excavation of slopes during road construction, expansion of infrastructure, and unplanned growth in urban population were the major factors for unstable slopes in the Lesser Himalayan region. Historical database, interpretation of satellite and Google earth images were used to identification of 248 landslides. The data collected using remote sensing images have been verified by conducting ground truth surveys undertaken from January 2018 to October 2020 in preparing the landslide inventory of the study area. Inventory thus generated was divided into 70% training and 30% validation datasets. Relationships between slope failure and its causative factors (relief, slope, aspect, curvature, lithology, soil, weathering, land use, lineament density, rainfall, and density of drainage networks) were analyzed by using certainty factor (CF) and index of entropy (IOE) methods. The analysis of all causative factors and assigning relative weightage values by using the index of entropy and certainty factor models leads to the generation of Landslide hazard zonation maps of the region. Finally, the landslide prediction accuracy of hazard zonation maps was calculated by drawing Successive Rate Curve (SRC) curves for both training and validation datasets. The outcomes of this study will be useful to government agencies, planners, decision-makers, researchers, and general land-use planners for sustainable development of the study area.

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