The Role of Geospatial Technologies in Landslide Hazard Assessment

This book is designed to provide a detailed, methodological framework for landslide hazard assessment. The focus is on various dimensions of landslide hazard assessment, including the terminologies used in landslide hazard analysis and landslide inventory systems used globally and their relevance in generating a complete and reliable landslide database for further analysis, supported by global case studies. It includes an overview of the methodological developments in landslide hazard assessment and role of geospatial technologies in landslide studies.

Features:

• Helps readers to understand the technical details of geospatial techniques applied in hazard management.
• Deals with the practicalities of how to recognise and classify unstable terrain.
• Covers recent advances in landslide estimation, particularly the automated means of landslide susceptibility estimation.
• Explores methodological frameworks of landslide hazard assessment.
• Illustrates case studies from the United States, Europe, and Asia, including demonstrations of different methodologies of landslide susceptibility zonation.

This book is aimed at researchers, graduate students, and libraries in geotechnical and environmental engineering.

Sudhakar Dhondu Pardeshi is presently working as a professor of geography at Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune. Before joining this university, he served as a lecturer in geography at Ahmednagar College, Ahmednagar. His interest areas are geomorphology, landslide studies, water resource management, remote sensing, and GIS applications. He has 29 years of teaching and research experience at both graduate and postgraduate levels. He has published his research work in various national and international journals.

Sumant Eknath Autade is presently working as an associate professor in geography at Swami Vivekanand Night College in Dombivli, affiliated with the University of Mumbai. He has 18 years of teaching and research experience at graduate and postgraduate levels. His research interests are in the application of remotely sened data in natural hazard assessment, particularly landslides. He has published 13 research papers in various journals of national and international repute. He has completed four research projects funded by state and national funding agencies.

Suchitra Sudhakar Pardeshi is presently working as professor of geography in Prof. Ramkrishna More ACS College, Akurdi, Pune. Prior to this, she has served in Shivaji University, Kolhapur, and K.S.K.W. ASC College, Nasik. Her interest areas are geomorphology, landslide studies, flood hazard assessment, remote sensing, and GIS applications. She has 28 years of teaching and research experience at both graduate and postgraduate levels. She has published his research work in various national and international journals. She has completed four research projects funded by different national research funding agencies.