Journal
GEOMATICS NATURAL HAZARDS & RISK
Volume 7, Issue 5, Pages 1731-1752Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/19475705.2016.1144655
Keywords
Landslides; susceptibility maps; inventory map; northern Iran; Qaemshahr basin
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A regional scale basin susceptible to landslide located in Qaemshahr area in northern Iran was chosen for comparing the reliability of weight of evidence (WofE), fuzzy logic, and frequency ratio (FR) methods for landslide susceptibility mapping. The locations of 157 landslides were identified using Google Earth (R) or extracted from archived data, from which, 22 rockslides were eliminated from the data-set due to their different conditions. The 135 remaining landslides were randomly divided into two groups of modelling (70%) and validation (30%) data-sets. Elevation, slope degree, slope aspect, lithology, land use/cover, normalized difference vegetation index, rainfall, distance to drainage network, roads, and faults were considered as landslide causative factors. The landslide susceptibility maps were prepared using the three mentioned methods. The validation process was measured by the success and prediction rates calculated by area under receiver operating characteristic curve. The OR', AND', SUM', and PRODUCT' operators of the fuzzy logic method were unacceptable because these operators classify the target area into either very high or very low susceptible zones that are inconsistent with the physical conditions of the study area. The results of fuzzy GAMMA' operators were relatively reliable while, FR and WofE methods showed results that are more reliable.
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