Application of a complex assessment of landslide hazards in mountain regions

Abstract

The main regional factors of occurrence and activation of landslides within the mountain region were examined. As a result of study of recommendations made by experts, geologists, and gap analysis of existing methods of forecasting the landslide process, an algorithm of comprehensive assessment of landslide hazard areas based on the construction of models in a GIS environment was proposed. These models describe the spatial patterns of landslides. All factors determining the tendency of the studies area to the landslide process development were divided into actual factors, reflecting the regional peculiarities of the territory and forming the landslide-prone slopes (static model), as well as triggering factors, initiating the landslide process and determining its activity (dynamic model). The first cartographic model was built, showing the distribution of the deterministic indirect indicator of landslide hazard, i.e. stability index.

Keywords

• shallow landslides
• GIS
• factor analysis
• weight score
• stability index
• SIN-MAP