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PROMETHEE II and fuzzy AHP: an enhanced GIS-based landslide susceptibility mapping

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This paper describes the application of a well-known multi-criteria decision-making technique, called preference ranking organization method for enrichment evaluation (PROMETHEE II), in combination with fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP), as a weighting technique to explore landslide susceptibility mapping (LSM). To this end, eight landslide-related geodata layers of the Minoo Dasht located in the Gorgan province of Iran, involving slope, aspect, distance to river, drainage density, distance to fault, mean annual rainfall, distance to road and lithology have been integrated using the PROMETHEE II enhanced by FAHP technique. Afterward, the receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curves for the proposed LSM were drawn using an inventory of landslides containing 83 recent and historic landslide points, and the area under curve = 0.752 value was calculated accordingly. Additionally, to further verify the practicality of such susceptibility map, it was also evaluated against the landslide inventory using simple overlay. The outcome was that about 11 % of the occurred landslide points fall into the very high susceptibility class of the LSM, but approximately 52 % of them indeed fall into the high and very high susceptibility zones together. Also, it resulted that no recorded landslide occurred in the zone of very low susceptibility. According to the results of the ROC curves analysis and simple overlay evaluation, the produced map has exhibited good performance.

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  1. Department of RS and GIS, College of Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

    Majid Shadman Roodposhti & Saeed Rahimi

  2. Department of Geomorphology, College of Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

    Mansour Jafar Beglou

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Roodposhti, M.S., Rahimi, S. & Beglou, M.J. PROMETHEE II and fuzzy AHP: an enhanced GIS-based landslide susceptibility mapping. Nat Hazards 73, 77–95 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-012-0523-8

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