Description
This edited volume assesses capabilities of data mining algorithms for spatial modeling of natural hazards in different countries based on a collection of essays written by experts in the field. The book is organized on different hazards including landslides, flood, forest fire, land subsidence, earthquake, and gully erosion. Chapters were peer-reviewed by recognized scholars in the field of natural hazards research. Each chapter provides an overview on the topic, methods applied, and discusses examples used. The concepts and methods are explained at a level that allows undergraduates to understand and other readers learn through examples. This edited volume is shaped and structured to provide the reader with a comprehensive overview of all covered topics. It serves as a reference for researchers from different fields including land surveying, remote sensing, cartography, GIS, geophysics, geology, natural resources, and geography. It also serves as a guide for researchers, students, organizations, and decision makers active in land use planning and hazard management.
Table of Contents
Gully erosion modeling using GIS-based data mining techniques in Northern Iran; a comparison between boosted regression tree and multivariate adaptive regression spline.- Concepts for Improving Machine Learning Based Landslide Assessment.- Multi-hazard assessment modeling using multi-criteria analysis and GIS: a case study.- Assessment of the contribution of geo-environmental factors to flood inundation in a semi-arid region of SW Iran: comparison of different advanced modeling approaches.- Land Subsidence modelling using data mining techniques. The case study of Western Thessaly, Greece.- Application of fuzzy analytical network process model for analyzing the gully erosion susceptibility.- Landslide susceptibility prediction maps: from blind-testing to uncertainty of class membership: a review of past and present developments.- Earthquake events modeling using multi-criteria decision analysis in Iran.- Prediction of Rainfall as One of the Main Variables in Several Natural Disasters.- Landslide Inventory, Sampling & Effect of Sampling Strategies on Landslide Susceptibility/Hazard Modelling at a Glance.- GIS-based landslide susceptibility evaluation using certainty factor and index of entropy ensembled with alternating decision tree models.- Evaluation of Sentinel-2 MSI and Pleiades 1B imagery in forest fire susceptibility assessment in temperate regions of Central and Eastern Europe. A case study of Romania.- Monitoring and Management of Land Subsidence induced by over-exploitation of groundwater.- A VEGETATED VARIATION MODEL FOR THE FLOODPLAIN OF LOWER MEKONG DELTA DERIVED FROM MULTI-TEMPORAL ERS-2 AND SENTINEL-1 DATA.
