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Regional-scale landslide susceptibility modelling in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru—a comparison of different approaches

Büechi, Emanuel; Klimeš, Jan; Frey, Holger; Huggel, Christian; Strozzi, Tazio; Cochachin, Alejo (2019). Regional-scale landslide susceptibility modelling in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru—a comparison of different approaches. Landslides, 16(2):395-407.

Abstract

This study applied existing methods of landslide susceptibility modelling of the mountainous area of the Cordillera Blanca (Peru), which is prone to landslides. In heterogeneous regions as in the Cordillera Blanca, the performance of a physically based approach Stability Index Mapping (SINMAP) was compared to empirical statistical models using logistic regression and a landslide density model. All models were applied to three different digital elevation models (DEMs): ASTER GDEM, SRTM (both 30-m spatial resolution), and TanDEM-X (12-m spatial resolution). Obtained results were evaluated using the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) approach, once for a landslide inventory which extends over the whole study area and once using an inventory of a smaller area. The physically based approach (AUCs between 0.567 and 0.625) performed worse than the statistical models (AUCs from 0.672 to 0.759) over the large area. Additionally, all models received higher performances within the small area. This coincided with differences of the variability of the DEM-derived characteristics (e.g. slope angle and curvature) from the small to the large evaluation area. Using the smaller evaluation area, all models received higher AUC values (0.743–0.799), and the impact of the DEMs was less visible. The analysis of the susceptibility showed that mainly the same slopes are considered as most or least susceptible by all models, but SINMAP is classifying larger areas as unstable or stable. Overall, this study showed that regional-scale landslide susceptibility modelling can lead to reasonable results even in regions with scarce model input data, but performances of different DEMs and models need to be evaluated carefully.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:07 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography
Dewey Decimal Classification:910 Geography & travel
Scopus Subject Areas:Physical Sciences > Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology
Uncontrolled Keywords:Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology
Language:English
Date:1 February 2019
Deposited On:13 Dec 2018 13:07
Last Modified:20 Oct 2024 01:36
Publisher:Springer
ISSN:1612-5118
OA Status:Closed
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-018-1090-1

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