Using a single remote-sensing image to calculate the height  of a landslide dam and the maximum volume of a lake

Zou, Weijie; Zhou, Yi; Wang, Shixin; Wang, Futao; Wang, Litao; Zhao, Qing; Liu, Wenliang; Zhu, Jinfeng; Xiong, Yibing; Wang, Zhenqing; Qin, Gang

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-2081-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-2081-2022

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22 Jun 2022

Research article |

| 22 Jun 2022

Using a single remote-sensing image to calculate the height of a landslide dam and the maximum volume of a lake

Weijie Zou, Yi Zhou, Shixin Wang, Futao Wang, Litao Wang, Qing Zhao, Wenliang Liu, Jinfeng Zhu, Yibing Xiong, Zhenqing Wang, and Gang Qin

Model code and software

Wiki-Chou/Using-a-single-remote-sensing-remote-sensing-image-to-calculate-the-heigh: Official release (visualization) W. Chou https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6680755

Short summary

Landslide dams are secondary disasters caused by landslides, which can cause great damage to mountains. We have proposed a procedure to calculate the key parameters of these dams that uses only a single remote-sensing image and a pre-landslide DEM combined with landslide theory. The core of this study is a modeling problem. We have found the bridge between the theory of landslide dams and the requirements of disaster relief.