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after Hurricane Wilma in 2005. These results represent a simplistic GIS approximation of the phenomena in a specific urban …
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Groundwater management can be effectively implemented by mapping groundwater contamination. Intense agricultural activities and land overexploitation have resulted in groundwater contamination, which is becoming a critical issue, specifically in areas where fertilizers are extensively used on...
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This study presents a framework for mapping rainfall-induced landslide susceptibility in the Wencheng area of Zhejiang Province, China, using support vector machine (SVM). Seven conditioning factors of elevation, slope, aspect, distance to roads, lithology, land use, and normalized difference...
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sensing and geographical information system (GIS) techniques. Landslides are considered to be one of the most extreme natural … satellite images were selected and incorporated in GIS environment in order to develop a decision support and continuous …
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limitations, a framework has been developed that links a commercial relational databasemanagement system with a GIS-based decision …
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In the international literature, although considerable amount of publications on the landslide susceptibility mapping exist, geomorphology as a conditioning factor is still used in limited number of studies. Considering this factor, the purpose of this article paper is to implement the...
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The Menoreh Mountains in Yogyakarta are severely affected by landslides. Due to the high population densities, mass movements are generally damaging and fatal. More than other Javanese mountains, the Menoreh Mountains cumulate several factors causing landslides. Therefore, it is necessary to...
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-relief measures. Tropical cyclone disasters in Zhejiang Province are mainly studied based on GIS technology, by considering disaster …
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choice fuzzy method in a GIS environment. There has been a rapid increase in landslide occurrences in the Kodaikkanal town … landslide history. The prepared thematic maps of causative factors are integrated, utilizing the GIS software Arcmap. The …
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System (GIS) to construct andto overlay thematic maps. The risk map has beenderived from the vulnerability map, the hazard … shows interesting results and stressesthe need for the GIS to test and improve on thegroundwater contamination risk …
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