Journal
GEOCARTO INTERNATIONAL
Volume 32, Issue 9, Pages 935-955Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2016.1195886
Keywords
Landslide susceptibility; GIS; statistical index; certainty factors; weights of evidence; evidential belief function
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41572245]
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The main aim of this study was to produce landslide susceptibility maps using statistical index (SI), certainty factors (CF), weights of evidence (WoE) and evidential belief function (EBF) models for the Long County, China. Firstly, a landslide inventory map, including a total of 171 landslides, was compiled on the basis of earlier reports, interpretation of aerial photographs and supported by extensive field surveys. Thereafter, all landslides were randomly separated into two data sets: 70% landslides (120 points) were selected for establishing the model and the remaining landslides (51 points) were used for validation purposes. Eleven landslide conditioning factors, such as slope aspect, slope angle, plan curvature, profile curvature, altitude, distance to faults, distance to roads, distance to rivers, lithology, NDVI and land use, were considered for landslide susceptibility mapping in this study. Then, the SI, CF, WoE and EBF models were used to produce the landslide susceptibility maps for the study area. Finally, the four models were validated using area under the curve (AUC) method. According to the validation results, the EBF model (AUC=78.93%) has a higher prediction accuracy than the SI model (AUC=77.72%), the WoE model (AUC=77.62%) and the CF model (AUC=77.72%). Similarly, the validation results also indicate that the EBF model has the highest training accuracy of 80.25%, followed by SI (79.80%), WoE (79.71%) and CF (79.67%) models.
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