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Landslide Susceptibility Zoning Using GIS Tools: An Application in the Germanasca Valley (NW Italy)

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Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 2

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Landslide susceptibility mapping is a fundamental tool for disaster management and planning development activities in mountainous areas. The landslide susceptibility maps produced in the present work represent a step forward in the management of landslide hazard in the Germanasca valley (Western Alps, NW Italy). Landslide susceptibility analysis was conducted using a Geographic Information System and a specific ArcGIS® toolbox called ModelBuilder. In the specific case eight predisposing factors were considered: surface and bedrock lithology, distance from drainage, altitude, planform curvature, profile curvature, slope, aspect and land use. A dedicated MATLAB routine has been developed for calculating the correlation of landslide to each factor using the logistic regression method.

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  1. Department of Environment, Land, and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI), Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129, Turin, Italy

    Glenda Taddia, Loretta Gnavi, Marco Piras, Andrea Lingua & Stefano Lo Russo

  2. Earth Sciences Department, Universita degli Studi di Torino, Via Valperga Caluso 35, 10125, Turin, Italy

    Maria Gabriella Forno

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Correspondence to Glenda Taddia .

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  1. Inst. for Geo-hydrological Protection, National Research Council (CNR), Turin, Italy

    Giorgio Lollino

  2. Inst. for Geo-hydrological Protection, National Research Council (CNR), Turin, Italy

    Daniele Giordan

  3. Dept. of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Milan Bicocca, Milan, Italy

    Giovanni B. Crosta

  4. Dept. of Geotechn. Engin. & Geosciences, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    Jordi Corominas

  5. Dept. of Engin. Geology and Hydrogeology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Rafig Azzam

  6. Inst. for Geo-hydrological Protection, National Research Council (CNR), Bari, Italy

    Janusz Wasowski

  7. University G. D'Annunzi Chieti Pescara, Chieti, Italy

    Nicola Sciarra

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Taddia, G., Gnavi, L., Piras, M., Forno, M.G., Lingua, A., Russo, S.L. (2015). Landslide Susceptibility Zoning Using GIS Tools: An Application in the Germanasca Valley (NW Italy). In: Lollino, G., et al. Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09057-3_22

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