Introduction
Study area
Typhoon-induced landslides and debris flows in the Baichi catchment
Methods
Datasets and pre-processing
Data | Description | Spatial resolution | Acquisition date |
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SPOT-5 | Pre-event image: typhoon Aere | 2.5 m | 10/02/2004 |
Post-event image: typhoon Aere | 2.5 m | 02/11/2004 | |
Pre-event image: typhoon Matsa | 2.5 m | 16/03/2005 | |
Post-event image: typhoon matsa | 2.5 m | 09/09/2005 | |
DEM | Pre-event data; including DEM derivatives: slope, curvature, plan curvature | 5 m | Derived from orthophotos acquired in 2002 and 2003 |
Object-based classification based on post-event satellite imagery
Initial segmentation
Extraction of landslide candidates
Landslide classification and class refinement
Testing the transferability of the classification approach
Band | Post-event SPOT-5 image from 2004 | Post-event SPOT-5 image from 2005 | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Mean value | Standard deviation | Mean value | Standard deviation | |
Green | 55.3 | 40.2 | 32.6 | 35.3 |
Red | 31.7 | 41.8 | 29.5 | 40.2 |
Near Infrared | 151.8 | 55.8 | 159.8 | 53.3 |
Object-based change detection
Multi-temporal image segmentation
NDVI and GNDVI normalisation
Change detection
Results
Class | Classification (in ha) | Reference (in ha) | Correctly classified areas (in ha) | Producer’s accuracy (in %) | User’s accuracy (in %) | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aere (2004) | Shallow landslides | 96.42 | 80.08 | 68.04 | 84.97 | 70.57 |
Debris flows/ sediment transport areas | 34.67 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | |
Matsa (2005) | Shallow landslides | 112.57 | 90.6 | 76.28 | 84.19 | 67.76 |
Debris flows/ sediment transport areas | 49.01 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |