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Estimating global landslide susceptibility and its uncertainty through ensemble modeling
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
Jean Poesen
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management, Maria-Curie Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland
Michel Bechtold
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
Matthias Vanmaercke
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
Gabriëlle J. M. De Lannoy
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
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In this study we assessed global landslide susceptibility at the coarse 36 km spatial resolution of global satellite soil moisture observations to prepare for a subsequent combination of the two. Specifically, we focus therefore on the susceptibility of hydrologically triggered landslides. We introduce ensemble techniques, common in, for example, meteorology but not yet in the landslide community, to retrieve reliable estimates of the total prediction uncertainty.
In this study we assessed global landslide susceptibility at the coarse 36 km spatial resolution...
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