By Hiromitsu Yamagishi,Netra Prakash Bhandary
This booklet provides landslide experiences utilizing the geographic info procedure (GIS), which include not just the technology of GIS and distant sensing, but in addition technical options, reminiscent of targeted gentle detection and varying profiles, between others. to this point many of the learn on landslides has been present in journals on topography, geology, geo-technology, landslides, and GIS, and is proscribed to express clinical elements. even though magazine articles on GIS utilizing landslide stories are plentiful, there are only a few books in this subject. This publication is designed to fill that hole and exhibit how the newest GIS know-how can give a contribution when it comes to landslide experiences. In a comparable improvement, the GIS Landslide Workshop was once validated in Japan 7 years in the past so one can converse and clear up the medical in addition to technical difficulties of GIS analyses, resembling how one can use GIS software program and its services. The workshop has considerably contributed to development within the field.
Included one of the chapters of this publication are GIS utilizing susceptibility mapping, analyses of deep-seated and shallow landslides, measuring and visualization of landslide distribution with regards to topography, geological facies and buildings, rivers, land use, and infrastructures corresponding to roads and streets. choked with photos, figures, and tables, this ebook is of significant price to researchers within the fields of geography, geology, seismology, atmosphere, distant sensing, and atmospheric learn, in addition to to scholars in those fields.
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