Landslides are occurring more frequently in China under the conditions of extreme rainfall and changing climate, according to News reports. Landslide hazard assessment remains an international focus on disaster prevention and mitigation, and it is an important step for compiling and quantitatively characterizing landslide damages. This paper collected and analyzed the historical landslide events data of the past 60 years in China. Validated by the frequencies and distributions of landslides, nine key factors (lithology, convexity, slope gradient, slope aspect, elevation, soil property, vegetation coverage, flow, and fracture) are selected to construct landslide susceptibility (LS) empirical models by back-propagation artificial neural network method. By integrating landslide empirical models with surface multi-source geospatial and remote sensing data, this paper further performs a large-scale LS assessment throughout China. The resulting landslide hazard assessment map of China clearly illustrates the hot spots of the high landslide potential areas, mostly concentrated in the southwest. The study implements a complete framework of multi-source data collecting, processing, modeling, and synthesizing that fulfills the assessment of LS and provides a theoretical basis and practical guide for predicting and mitigating landslide disasters potentially throughout China.
The sustainable development of the city is the key to the realization of the global sustainable development goals. Urban sustainability evaluation is a measure to the sustainable development of cities, and basis of sustainable urban development. The current evaluation method is based on statistical data which is low spatial resolution, long period and high cost. In recent years, remote sensing data, network data and the multivariate data have been used for the evaluation for the sustainable development of cities, and there have been many related research cases, which provides a new idea and method to carry out the high resolution evaluation of urban sustainable development rapidly, accurately and cheaply. This article reviewed the remote sensing data and network data in the progress of the application in the evaluation to the sustainable development of cities, and discussed the advantages of remote sensing and network big data in the objectivity, accuracy, and timeliness of evaluation compared with traditional data. Based on the sustainable urban development indicators of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), a basic framework for the evaluation of sustainable development of cities with high temporal and spatial resolution of big data such as remote sensing data and network big data was proposed. The introduction of remote sensing and network big data will change the inherent paradigm of sustainability assessment, make high-resolution real-time evaluation possible, further innovate analytical techniques, improve data accuracy, and make clear the alternative relationship with traditional data being the focus and the only way to realize the replacement of traditional data by remote sensing and network big data. 相似文献