Coupling field and satellite data for an event-based landslide inventory

Abstract. Event-based landslide inventories are important for analyzing the relationship between the intensity of the trigger (e.g., rainfall, earthquake) and the density of the landslides in a particular area as a basis for the estimation of the landslide probability and the conversion of susceptibility maps into hazard maps required for risk assessment. They are also crucial for the establishment of local rainfall thresholds that are the basis of early warning systems and for evaluating which land use and land cover changes are related to landslide occurrence. The completeness and accuracy of event-based landslide inventories are crucial aspects to derive reliable results or the above types of analyses. In this study, we generated a relatively complete landslide inventory for the 2018 monsoon landslide event in the state of Kerala, India, based on two inventories that were generated using different methods: one based on an object-based image analysis (OBIA) and the other on field surveys of damaging landslides. We used a collaborative mapping approach based on the visual interpretation of pre- and post-event high-resolution satellite images (HRSIs) available from Google Earth, adjusted the two inventories, and digitized landslides that were missed in the two inventories. The reconstructed landslide inventory database contains 4728 landslides consisting of 2477 landslides mapped by the OBIA method, 973 landslides mapped by field survey, 422 landslides mapped both by OBIA and field methods, and an additional 856 landslides mapped using the visual image (Google Earth) interpretation. The dataset is available at https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-x6c-y7x2 (van Westen, 2020). Also, the location of the landslides was adjusted, based on the image interpretation, and the initiation points were used to evaluate the land use and land cover changes as a causal factor for the 2018 monsoon landslides. A total of 45 % of the landslides that damaged buildings occurred due to cut-slope failures, while 34 % of those having an impact on roads were due to road cut-slope failures. The resulting landslide inventory is made available for further studies.

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The Integration Between Satellite Data and Conventional Monitoring System in Order to Update the Arpa Piemonte Landslide Inventory

Landslide Science and Practice ◽

10.1007/978-3-642-31325-7_17 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 135-140 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Luca Lanteri ◽

Alessio Colombo

Keyword(s):

Monitoring System ◽

Satellite Data ◽

Landslide Inventory

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Constructing a complete landslide inventory dataset for the 2018 Monsoon disaster in Kerala, India, for land use change analysis

10.5194/essd-2020-83 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Lina Hao ◽

Rajaneesh A. ◽

Cees van Westen ◽

Sajinkumar K. S. ◽

Tapas Ranjan Martha ◽

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Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Cover ◽

Early Warning Systems ◽

Google Earth ◽

Landslide Inventory ◽

Land Cover Changes ◽

Land Use Land Cover ◽

Cut Slope ◽

Landslide Event ◽

Event Based

Abstract. Event-based landslide inventories are important for analyzing the relationship between the intensity of the trigger (e.g. rainfall, earthquake) and the density of the landslides in a particular area, as a basis for the estimation of the landslide probability and the conversion of susceptibility maps into hazard maps required for risk assessment. They are also crucial for the establishment of local rainfall thresholds that are the basis of Early Warning Systems, and for evaluating which land use/land cover changes are related to landslide occurrence. The completeness and accuracy of event-based landslide inventories are crucial aspects to derive at reliable results or the above types of analysis. In this study we generated a relatively complete landslide inventory for the 2018 Monsoon landslide event in the state of Kerala, India, based on two inventories that were generated using different methods: one based on Object Based Image Analysis (OBIA) and the other on field surveys of damaging landslides. We used a collaborative mapping approach based on the visual interpretation of pre-and post-event high-resolution satellite images available in Google Earth, adjusted the two inventories and digitize landslides that were missed in the two inventories. The reconstructed landslide inventory database contains 4728 landslides consisting of 2477 landslides mapped by OBIA method, 973 landslides mapped by field survey, 422 landslides mapped both by OBIA and field method and an additional 856 landslides mapped using the visual image (GE) interpretation. The dataset is available at https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-x6c-y7x2 (van Westen, 2020). Also, the location of the landslides was adjusted, based on the image interpretation, and the initiation points were used to evaluate the land use/land cover changes as a causal factor for the 2018 Monsoon landslides. A total of 45 % of the landslides that damaged buildings occurred due to cut-slope failure while 34 % of those impacting on roads were due to road cut-slope failures. The resulting landslide inventory is made available for further studies.

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Exploring Influence of Sampling Strategies on Event-Based Landslide Susceptibility Modeling

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information ◽

10.3390/ijgi8090397 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (9) ◽

pp. 397 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Lai ◽

Chiang ◽

Tsai

Keyword(s):

Landslide Susceptibility ◽

Landslide Inventory ◽

Sampling Strategies ◽

Remotely Sensed Data ◽

Sensitive Analysis ◽

Susceptibility Modeling ◽

Hybrid Sample ◽

Integrated Cost ◽

Event Based ◽

Mixing Problem

This study explores two modeling issues that may cause uncertainty in landslide susceptibility assessments when different sampling strategies are employed. The first issue is that extracted attributes within a landslide inventory polygon can vary if the sample is obtained from different locations with diverse topographic conditions. The second issue is the mixing problem of landslide inventory that the detection of landslide areas from remotely-sensed data generally includes source and run-out features unless the run-out portion can be removed manually with auxiliary data. To this end, different statistical sampling strategies and the run-out influence on random forests (RF)-based landslide susceptibility modeling are explored for Typhoon Morakot in 2009 in southern Taiwan. To address the construction of models with an extremely high false alarm error or missing error, this study integrated cost-sensitive analysis with RF to adjust the decision boundary to achieve improvements. Experimental results indicate that, compared with a logistic regression model, RF with the hybrid sample strategy generally performs better, achieving over 80% and 0.7 for the overall accuracy and kappa coefficient, respectively, and higher accuracies can be obtained when the run-out is treated as an independent class or combined with a non-landslide class. Cost-sensitive analysis significantly improved the prediction accuracy from 5% to 10%. Therefore, run-out should be separated from the landslide source and labeled as an individual class when preparing a landslide inventory.

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