Mapping coseismic landslide damaged buildings during the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake in rural mountainous area

W. Yang, M. Wang & P. Shi

State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

C. J. van Westen & N. Kerle

Department of Earth System Analysis, Faculty of Geo-Information and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

ABSTRACT:   Determining the location of coseismic landslides damaged buildings is critical to the understanding of human losses from earthquake-induced landslides during major earthquakes in mountainous regions. Because of the vast area of ...

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