Comparative analysis of Statistical Methods for Landslide Susceptibility Mapping in the Bostanlik District, Uzbekistan
- Author(s)
- Mukhiddin Juliev, Martin Mergili, Ismail Mondal, Bakhtiar Nurtaev, Alim Pulatov, Johannes Hübl
- Abstract
The Bostanlik district, Uzbekistan, is characterized by mountainous terrain susceptible to landslides. The present study aims at creating a statistically derived landslide susceptibility map – the first of its type for Uzbekistan - for part of the area in order to inform risk management. Statistical index (SI), frequency ratio (FR) and certainty factor (CF) are employed and compared for this purpose. Ten predictor layers are used for the analysis, including geology, soil, land use and land cover, slope, aspect, elevation, distance to lineaments, distance to faults, distance to roads, and distance to streams. 170 landslide polygons are mapped based on GeoEye-1 and Google Earth imagery. 119 (70%) out of them are randomly selected and used for the training of the methods, whereas 51 (30%) are retained for the evaluation of the results. The three landslide susceptibility maps are split into five classes, i.e. very low, low, moderate, high, and very high. The evaluation of the results obtained builds on the area under the success rate and prediction rate curves (AUC). The training accuracies are 82.1%, 74.3% and 74%, while the prediction accuracies are 80%, 70% and 71%, for the SI, FR and CF methods, respectively. The spatial relationships between the landslides and the predictor layers confirmed the results of previous studies conducted in other areas, whereas model performance was slightly higher than in some earlier studies – possibly a benefit of the polygon-based landslide inventory.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Geography and Regional Research
- External organisation(s)
- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, University of Calcutta, State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Geology and Mineral Resources, Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers
- Journal
- Science of the Total Environment
- Volume
- 653
- Pages
- 801-814
- No. of pages
- 14
- ISSN
- 0048-9697
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.10.431
- Publication date
- 2019
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 207201 Soil mechanics, 107007 Risk research, 101018 Statistics, 105404 Geomorphology
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Pollution, Waste Management and Disposal, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Chemistry
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/f8c5b6fa-ba6d-42c7-8bf8-edbe00888c74