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Pengxiang Zhao

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A GIS-Based Landslide Susceptibility Mapping and Variable Importance Analysis Using Artificial Intelligent Training-Based Methods

Author

  • Pengxiang Zhao
  • Zohreh Masoumi
  • Maryam Kalantari
  • Mahtab Aflaki
  • Ali Mansourian

Summary, in English

Landslides often cause significant casualties and economic losses, and therefore landslide susceptibility mapping (LSM) has become increasingly urgent and important. The potential of deep learning (DL) like convolutional neural networks (CNN) based on landslide causative factors has not been fully explored yet. The main target of this study is the investigation of a GIS-based LSM in Zanjan, Iran and to explore the most important causative factor of landslides in the case study area. Different machine learning (ML) methods have been employed and compared to select the best results in the case study area. The CNN is compared with four ML algorithms, including random forest (RF), artificial neural network (ANN), support vector machine (SVM), and logistic regression (LR). To do so, sixteen landslide causative factors have been extracted and their related spatial layers have been prepared. Then, the algorithms were trained with related landslide and non-landslide points. The results illustrate that the five ML algorithms performed suitably (precision = 82.43–85.6%, AUC = 0.934–0.967). The RF algorithm achieves the best result, while the CNN, SVM, the ANN, and the LR have the best results after RF, respectively, in this case study. Moreover, variable importance analysis results indicate that slope and topographic curvature contribute more to the prediction. The results would be beneficial to planning strategies for landslide risk management.

Department/s

  • Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science
  • Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)
  • MECW: The Middle East in the Contemporary World

Publishing year

2022-01-01

Language

English

Publication/Series

Remote Sensing

Volume

14

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

MDPI AG

Topic

  • Engineering and Technology
  • Earth and Related Environmental Sciences

Keywords

  • Deep learning
  • Feature importance
  • Landslide causative factors
  • Landslide susceptibility mapping
  • Machine learning
  • Artificial intelligence (AI)
  • Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI)

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2072-4292