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Topographic profile and morphology analysis of shallow landslides inside and outside of forests with a semi-automatic mapping approach and bi-temporal airborne laser scanning data
Department of Geography, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria
Thomas Zieher
Department of Natural Hazards, Austrian Research Centre for Forests (BFW), Innsbruck, Austria
Barbara Schneider-Muntau
Department of Infrastructure, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Frank Perzl
Department of Natural Hazards, Austrian Research Centre for Forests (BFW), Innsbruck, Austria
Marc Adams
Department of Natural Hazards, Austrian Research Centre for Forests (BFW), Innsbruck, Austria
Martin Rutzinger
Department of Geography, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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We performed an analysis on semi-automatically mapped shallow landslide scarps and forest cover in the Sellrain valley, Tyrol (Austria), to investigate how the morphology and topographic profiles of landslides are affected by the forest. The results show that landslides located in dense forest cover occurred on steeper slopes and were deeper than others. The results also show that the use of forest stand density parameters, such as tree spacing, enhanced the found differences in the study area.
We performed an analysis on semi-automatically mapped shallow landslide scarps and forest cover...
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