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Exploratory GIS & remote sensing analysis for developing statistical correlations between environmental parameters and mass movements'occurrence

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Among the various natural hazards, mass movements (MM) are probably the most damaging to the natural and human environment in Mediterranean countries, including Lebanon which represents a good case study. This research deals with how to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for establishing the relationships between MM occurrence and different factor terrain parameters over a representative region of Lebanon. Parameters expressed by: 1ancillary data like lithology, proximity to fault zone, soil type, land cover/use, distance to drainage line and rainfall quantity, and 2derived data like slope gradient, slope aspect, soil rugosity, and soil texture from radar satellite imageries were correlated withMMusing GIS-approaches. TheMMwere first detected through visual interpretation of two stereo-pairs of SPOT 4 images (anaglyph) at 10 m resolution. This study indicates, depending on bivariate Remote Sensing and GIS statistical correlations (Kendall Tau-b correlation), that the lithology is the most influencing factor on MM occurrence. It also shows that statistical correlations to mass movements exist best between factors at the following decreasing order of importance: lithologyproximity to fault line, lithologysoil type and lithologydistance to drainage line at 1% level of significance, and soilland cover/use, slope aspect-land cover/use, and soilslope gradient at 5% level of significance. These correlations were verified and checked through field observations and explained using univariate statistical correlations. Therefore, they could be extrapolated to other Mediterranean countries having similar geoenvironmental conditions.
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hal-02593946 , version 1 (15-05-2020)

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Cosette C. Abdallah, N. Baghdadi, R. Boukheir. Exploratory GIS & remote sensing analysis for developing statistical correlations between environmental parameters and mass movements'occurrence. EGU General Assembly, May 2010, Vienne, Austria. pp.1. ⟨hal-02593946⟩
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