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Assessment and validation of GIS-based landslide susceptibility maps: a case study from Feltrino stream basin (Central Italy)

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Landslide susceptibility studies focus on producing susceptibility maps starting from landslide inventories and considering the main conditioning factors. The validity of susceptibility maps must be verified in terms of model accuracy and prediction skills. This paper deals with a GIS-based landslide susceptibility analysis and relative validation in a hilly-coastal test-area in Adriatic Central Italy. The susceptibility analysis was performed via bivariate statistics using the Landslide-Index method and a detailed (field-based) landslide inventory. Selection and mapping of conditioning factors and landslide inventories was derived from detail geomorphological analyses of the study area. The susceptibility map was validated using recent (shallow) landslides in terms of both model accuracy and prediction skills, via Success rate and Prediction rate curves, respectively. In addition, a pre-existing official landslide inventory was applied to the model to test whether it can be used when a detailed (field-based) inventory is not available, thereby extending its usability in similar physiographic regions. The outcome of this study reveals that slope and lithology are the main conditioning factor of landslides, but also highlights the key role of surficial deposits in susceptibility assessment, for both their type and thickness. The validation results show the effectiveness of the susceptibility model in both model accuracy and prediction skills given the good percentage of correctly classified landslides. Moreover, comparison of the susceptibility map with the official Regional landslides inventory proves the possibility of using the developed susceptibility model also in the absence of detailed landslide mapping, by considering inventories that are already available.

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Sciarra, M., Coco, L. & Urbano, T. Assessment and validation of GIS-based landslide susceptibility maps: a case study from Feltrino stream basin (Central Italy). Bull Eng Geol Environ 76, 437–456 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10064-016-0954-7

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