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Spatial Prediction of Landslides Using Hybrid Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods: A Case Study of the Saqqez-Marivan Mountain Road in Iran

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  • Rahim Tavakolifar

    (Department of Geomorphology, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj 6617715175, Iran)

  • Himan Shahabi

    (Department of Geomorphology, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj 6617715175, Iran
    Geoscience and Digital Earth Centre (INSTeG), Research Institute for Sustainability and Environment (RISE), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Johor Bahru 81310, Malaysia)

  • Mohsen Alizadeh

    (Institute of Oceanography and Environment (INOS), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Kuala Nerus 21030, Terengganu, Malaysia)

  • Sayed M. Bateni

    (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Water Resources Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA)

  • Mazlan Hashim

    (Geoscience and Digital Earth Centre (INSTeG), Research Institute for Sustainability and Environment (RISE), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Johor Bahru 81310, Malaysia
    Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Johor Bahru 81310, Malaysia)

  • Ataollah Shirzadi

    (Department of Rangeland and Watershed Management, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj 6617715175, Iran)

  • Effi Helmy Ariffin

    (Institute of Oceanography and Environment (INOS), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Kuala Nerus 21030, Terengganu, Malaysia
    Faculty of Science and Marine Environment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Kuala Nerus 21030, Terengganu, Malaysia)

  • Isabelle D. Wolf

    (Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space, School of Geography and Sustainable Communities, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
    Centre for Ecosystem Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia)

  • Saman Shojae Chaeikar

    (Australian Institute of Higher Education, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia)

Abstract

Landslides along the main roads in the mountains cause fatalities, ecosystem damage, and land degradation. This study mapped the susceptibility to landslides along the Saqqez-Marivan main road located in Kurdistan province, Iran, comparing an ensemble fuzzy logic with analytic network process (fuzzy logic-ANP; FLANP) and TOPSIS (fuzzy logic-TOPSIS; FLTOPSIS) in terms of their prediction capacity. First, 100 landslides identified through field surveys were randomly allocated to a 70% dataset and a 30% dataset, respectively, for training and validating the methods. Eleven landslide conditioning factors, including slope, aspect, elevation, lithology, land use, distance to fault, distance to a river, distance to road, soil type, curvature, and precipitation were considered. The performance of the methods was evaluated by inspecting the areas under the receiver operating curve (AUCROC). The prediction accuracies were 0.983 and 0.938, respectively, for the FLTOPSIS and FLANP methods. Our findings demonstrate that although both models are known to be promising, the FLTOPSIS method had a better capacity for predicting the susceptibility of landslides in the study area. Therefore, the susceptibility map developed through the FLTOPSIS method is suitable to inform management and planning of areas prone to landslides for land allocation and development purposes, especially in mountainous areas.

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  • Rahim Tavakolifar & Himan Shahabi & Mohsen Alizadeh & Sayed M. Bateni & Mazlan Hashim & Ataollah Shirzadi & Effi Helmy Ariffin & Isabelle D. Wolf & Saman Shojae Chaeikar, 2023. "Spatial Prediction of Landslides Using Hybrid Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods: A Case Study of the Saqqez-Marivan Mountain Road in Iran," Land, MDPI, vol. 12(6), pages 1-19, May.
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