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Application and Verification of Fractal Approach to Landslide Susceptibility Mapping

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The existing methods for landslide susceptibility mapping, whether statistic method or physics-based method, require many data such as lithology, topography, soil properties, land use and so on. However, in many regions of the world, the abundance of data is not available, but the need for landslide susceptibility maps is great. For these regions, how should reliable susceptibility maps be produced from the limited data? We addressed the issue of the problem and developed a new landslide susceptibility analysis technique using historical landslide inventories and fractal statistics on a GIS platform. The aim of this article is to apply and verify the use of this new technique to landslide susceptibility mapping in the Zhejiang Province (101,800 km2 in area), China.

This is an updated version of an earlier paper published under the title “Application and Verification of Fractal Approach to Landslide Susceptibility Mapping” in Natural Hazards (Published online: 8 April 2011. Doi: 10.1007/s11069-011-9804-x)

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Acknowledgments

This study has been partially funded by the Science and Technology, Department of Zhejiang Province (No. 2006C13024). We would like to thank the Natural Hazards reviewers and the Terrigenous Mass Movements editors for their valuable comments, which have improved the paper. We also particularly thank Dr. Zhiming Lu of Los Alamos National Laboratory for his thorough and careful correction of an early draft of the manuscript.

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  1. Zhejiang Information Center of Land and Resources, 310007, Hangzhou, China

    Changjiang Li & Tuhua Ma

  2. Zhejiang Provincial Department of Land and Mineral Resources, 310007, Hangzhou, China

    Leling Sun & Wei Li

  3. Department of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University, 310027, Hangzhou, China

    Aiping Zheng

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Li, C., Ma, T., Sun, L., Li, W., Zheng, A. (2012). Application and Verification of Fractal Approach to Landslide Susceptibility Mapping. In: Pradhan, B., Buchroithner, M. (eds) Terrigenous Mass Movements. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25495-6_4

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