Articles | Volume 24, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-1697-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-1697-2024
Research article
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14 May 2024
Research article |  | 14 May 2024

Assessing landslide damming susceptibility in Central Asia

Carlo Tacconi Stefanelli, William Frodella, Francesco Caleca, Zhanar Raimbekova, Ruslan Umaraliev, and Veronica Tofani

Data sets

Multi-temporal landslide inventory for a study area in Southern Kyrgyz Republic derived from RapidEye satellite time series data (2009-2013), V. 1.0 Robert Behling and Sigrid Roessner https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.1.4.2020.001

NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Global 1 arc second NASA JPL https://doi.org/10.5067/MEaSUREs/SRTM/SRTMGL1.003

Short summary
Central Asia regions are marked by active tectonics, high mountains with glaciers, and strong rainfall. These predisposing factors make large landslides a serious threat in the area and a source of possible damming scenarios, which endanger the population. To prevent this, a semi-automated geographic information system (GIS-)based mapping method, centered on a bivariate correlation of morphometric parameters, was applied to give preliminary information on damming susceptibility in Central Asia.
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