Landslide hazard assessment in the Three Gorges area of the Yangtze River using ASTER imagery

Author

Liu, J.G. ; Mason, P.J. ; Clerici, N. ; Chen, S. ; Davis, A.M. ; Miao, F. ; Deng, H. ; Liang, L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of earth Sci. & Eng., Imperial Coll. of Sci., Technol. & Medicine, London, UK

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

21-25 July 2003

Firstpage

1302

Abstract

The Three Gorges Dam Project (TGP) has raised international attention because of its great potential for hydro-electrical power generation and flood control, as well as for its potential hazardous effects on the environment and ecology, and for the migration and resettlement of local inhabitants. Slope instability is one common problem in the Three Gorges area and this paper reports a regional assessment of landslide hazard based on ASTER imagery and Digital Elevation Model (DEM), in combination with limited field investigation. A simple model based on the geometric mean and Boolean decision rules has been applied to a multi-criterion dataset to generate a map of landslide hazard.

Keywords

disasters; geomorphology; geophysical techniques; rivers; terrain mapping; ASTER imagery; Boolean decision rules; TGP; Three Gorges Dam Project; Yangtze River; digital elevation model; ecology; environment; flood control; geometric mean; hydro-electrical power generation; inhabitant resettlement; landslide hazard assessment; local inhabitant migration; multicriterion dataset; potential hazardous effects; rainfall; slope instability; Biomedical imaging; Data mining; Educational institutions; Floods; Geoscience; Hazards; Rivers; Solid modeling; Stability; Terrain factors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2003. IGARSS '03. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7929-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2003.1294090

Filename

1294090