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This paper outlines the status of the landslide susceptibility modelling of the Sydney Basin region within the state of NSW, Australia. This area extends from Newcastle in the north to Batemans Bay in the south and west to include the Blue Mountains, an area of approximately 31,000 km2. The University of Wollongong NSW Landslide Inventory includes 1863 landslides (134 falls, 278 flows and 1451 slides) to date. The region supports approximately one quarter of the population of Australia. Individual susceptibility models for both slide category and flow category landslides have been developed for the entire Sydney Basin region. Rockfall Susceptibility has also been developed for portions of the Wollongong Local Government Area. The susceptibility models are suitable for use at local scale, Advisory level Local Government Area Development Control Plans. As the models cover the three dominant landslide types identified within the inventory, a trial Total Landslide Susceptibility model has now been developed. As each landslide susceptibility model is a 10 m pixel resolution numerical grid, with values ranging from 0 to 1, the total susceptibility model has been developed, quite simply, by summing the three individual models producing a Total Susceptibility numerical grid. However, classifying this grid into zones is not simple. Furthermore, the Australian regulatory requirements are varied and the outcomes often complex involving a spatial query of the total susceptibility grid and its three contributing landslide susceptibility grids.
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Flentje, P., Stirling, D., Palamakumbure, D., Martin, C. (2019). Total Landslide Susceptibility Modelling. In: Shakoor, A., Cato, K. (eds) IAEG/AEG Annual Meeting Proceedings, San Francisco, California, 2018 - Volume 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93124-1_27
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