Landslide susceptibility assessment using the Weight of Evidence method: A case study in Xunyang area, China.

ABSTRACT: The aim of this study is to provide a landslide susceptibility map of the Xunyang District of a mountainous terrain, at the southern part of the Qin-Ba Mountain Region, which has been highly exposed to widely distributed shallow landslides over the past few decades. The Weight of Evidence (WoE) method was adopted in this research considering both the presence of a certain landslide causative factor class and the absence of remaining classes, which was used for determining a clearly spatial correlation between a landslide occurrence and the causative factors. Intrinsic factors, including geomorphological factors, geological factors, and river flow networks, and external factors of anthropogenic engineering activities in terms of density of road network were all considered and involved in th

SUBMITTER: Cao Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7833220 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature