Pan-European landslide susceptibility mapping: ELSUS Version 2

We present an updated version of the European landslide susceptibility map ELSUS 1000 that was released through the European Soil Data Centre in 2013. The ELSUS V2 map shows the landslide susceptibility evaluation for individual climate-physiographic zones across Europe. The updated map was prepared using the same semi-quantitative method as for ELSUS 1000, analyzing landslide density information and spatial multicriteria evaluation of three thematic predictors: slope angle, shallow subsurface lithology and land cover. ELSUS V2 covers a larger area of Europe including Cyprus, the Faroes, the Shetlands and Iceland, at a higher spatial resolution of 200 x 200 m. The map was prepared using an extended landslide inventory containing 30% of additional locations for model calibration, map validation and classification, and a new lithological data set based on harmonized shallow subsurface information derived from the International Hydrogeological Map of Europe (IHME). The new version of the map increases the overall predictive performance of ELSUS by 8%.

WILDE Martina;  GUNTHER Andreas;  REICHENBACH Paola;  MALET Jean-Philippe;  HERVAS Javier; 

2018-02-15

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

JRC105147

1744-5647,   

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17445647.2018.1432511,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC105147,   

10.1080/17445647.2018.1432511,