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Debris Flow Source Identification in Tropical Dense Forest Using Airborne Laser Scanning Data and Flow-R Model

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Debris flow and related landslide processes can cause significant hazard to human kind and economic loss annually. Debris flow is a type of mass movement or landslide (Kuriakose 2006; U.S Geological Survey 2004). Varnes (1978) defined debris flow as a sudden mass movement, in which a combination of loose soil, rock, organic matter and water moves as a flowing slurry. In an earlier paper, Hutchinson (1988) defined debris flow as a mixture of sand, silt, clay and coarse materials, such as gravel, cobbles and boulders, with variable amounts of water that travels down under the influence of gravity in high density. Youssef and Pradhan (2013) specified that moving downward the slope causes debris flows when poorly sorted sediments or loose overburden materials are saturated with water. Several terms related to mass movement include debris floods, lahars, debris torrents or debris slides (Varnes 1978; Johnson 1984; Pierson and Costa 1987; Pradhan and Lee 2009, 2010a; Youssef et al. 2013).

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Pradhan, B., Bakar, S.B.A. (2017). Debris Flow Source Identification in Tropical Dense Forest Using Airborne Laser Scanning Data and Flow-R Model. In: Pradhan, B. (eds) Laser Scanning Applications in Landslide Assessment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55342-9_5

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