A statistical assessment on international landslide literature (1945–2008)

Abstract

In the present study,

Evaluating the quality of landslide inventory maps: comparison between archive and surveyed inventories for the Daunia region (Apulia, Southern Italy)

“…The abovementioned differences are due to numerous factors, such as the purpose of the inventory map, the map scale, the cartographic map used as basis, the adopted method and the available resources. Relatively to the purposes, landslide inventory maps are used not only for documenting the extent, types and distribution of landslide phenomena (Dikau et al 1996;Malamud et al 2004;Duman et al 2005), but also for assessing and mapping landslide susceptibility, hazard and risk (Wieczorek 1984;Ocakoglu et al 2002;Gokceoglu et al 2005;Lee and Lee 2006;Akgün et al 2008;Gokceoglu and Sezer 2009;Ocakoglu et al 2009;Pradhan et al 2010;Van Den Eeckhaut and Hervàs 2011;Pourghasemi et al 2012;Alemdag et al 2014;Pellicani et al 2013a). Accordingly, while detailed maps representing the more critical mass movements are needed for studies related to stability of urban centers or infrastructures, for landslide hazard analyses, through statistical methods, an inventory map which identifies the landslides uniformly in the entire study area is required, in order to correctly individuate the spatial correlation between landslides and environmental predisposing factors.…”

Landslides: A state-of-the art on the current position in the landslide research community

“…The achievements of Landslides in the period 2004-2009 were reviewed by Sassa et al (2009). A technical note on the statistical assessment on international landslide literature in the period 1945-2008, recently published by Gokceoglu and Sezer (2009), revealed Landslides as a major journal in this period with regard to the number of total publications-Landslides with 132 papers was ranked #3 behind Geomorphology and Engineering Geology, and in front of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Canadian Geotechnical Journal and others. The purpose of this state-of-the art review was to use available scientometric factors in order to evaluate this highly estimated position of Landslides in the group of journals used in the landslide research community to publish their own results.…”

Remote Sensing for Landslide Investigations: From Research into Practice

“…To date, several aspects have been investigated involving geological and geo-statistical analysis, geotechnical modeling, design of effective mitigation and protection structures, and sensor development [2].The impressive progress of remote sensing techniques has given a great contribution to research on landslides during the last two decades. According to the classification given in [3], applications of remote sensing can be grouped into three main categories: recognition and mapping, monitoring, spatial analysis and hazard prediction.…”

“…To date, several aspects have been investigated involving geological and geo-statistical analysis, geotechnical modeling, design of effective mitigation and protection structures, and sensor development [2].…”