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A Regional Study Of Landslide Hazards And Related Features In The Upper Indus River Basin, Northern Pakistan, Muhammad Farooq Ahmed Jan 2013

A Regional Study Of Landslide Hazards And Related Features In The Upper Indus River Basin, Northern Pakistan, Muhammad Farooq Ahmed

Doctoral Dissertations

"A spatial landslide inventory is a fundamental step preparatory to developing an understanding of regional landslide hazards. The techniques honed for this regional landslide mapping study began with compiling a stitched shaded topographic map of the Upper Indus River watershed; using remotely-sensed topographic maps from Russia combined with ASTER DEM 30m resolution data. Topographic recognition keys were then employed to aid in the visual identification and delineation of past landslides, rockslide avalanches, and landslide dam sites. The first order reconnaissance level inventory excerpted 2,254 landslides (mostly deep seated translational and complex slides) along the main stem of Indus River, land …


Regional Geomorphic Analysis And Gis Susceptibility Mapping Of Landslides In The Blue Nile And The Tekeze River Basins Of Ethiopia, Elamin Hassan Dai Ismail Jan 2013

Regional Geomorphic Analysis And Gis Susceptibility Mapping Of Landslides In The Blue Nile And The Tekeze River Basins Of Ethiopia, Elamin Hassan Dai Ismail

Doctoral Dissertations

"The Plateau region of Ethiopia lies within a seismically active continental extensional regime, which is being rapidly incised by the Blue Nile and the Tekeze Rivers. Extremely large landslides pose serious hazards in this highly populated region (>27 million), which is in the process of developing its hydrologic resources. This research sought to develop cost-effective methods to compile regional landslide inventory and landslide susceptibility maps, using geomorphic tools and GIS technologies. This work also sought to evaluate the relationships between landslide dams and knickpoints, caused by channel bed incision from those caused by slope failures, by utilizing identified knickpoints …