Landslide susceptibility evaluation in the Chemoga watershed,upper Blue Nile,Ethiopia     

Desalegn  Hunegnaw  Mulu  Arega  Damtew  Banchiamlak 《Natural Hazards》2022,113(2):1391-1417

Landslide susceptibility consists of an essential component in the day-to-day activity of human beings. Landslide incidents are typically happening at a low rate of recurrence when compared and in contrast to other events. This might be generated into main natural catastrophes relating to widespread and undesirable sound effects. Landslide hotspot area identification and mapping are used for the regional community to secure from this disaster. Therefore, this research aims to identify the hotspot areas of landslide and to generate maps using GIS, AHP, and multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA). MCDA techniques are applied under such circumstances to categorize and class decisions for successive comprehensive estimation or else to state possible from impossible potentiality with various landslides. Analytical hierarchy process (AHP) constructively applies for conveying influence to different criteria within multi-criteria decision analysis. The causative landslide identifying factors utilized in this research were elevation, slope, aspect, soil type, lithology, distance to stream, land use/land cover, rainfall, and drainage density achieved from various sources. Subsequently, to explain the significance of each constraint into landslide susceptibility, all factors were found using the AHP technique. Generally, landslide susceptibility map factors were multiplied by their weights to acquire with the AHP technique. The result showed that the AHP methods are comparatively good quality estimators of landslide susceptibility identification in the Chemoga watershed. As the result, the Chemoga watershed landslide susceptibility map classes were classified as 46.52%, 13.83%.18.71%, 15.39%, and 5.55% of the occurred landslide fall to very low, low, moderate, high, and very high susceptibility zones, respectively. Performance and accuracy of modeled maps have been established using GPS field data and Google earth data landslide map and area under curve (AUC) of the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC). As the result, validation depends on the ROC specifies the accuracy of the map formed with the AHP merged through weighted overly method illustrated very good accuracy of AUC value 81.45%. In general, the research outcomes inveterate the very good test consistency of the generated maps.

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Application of high resolution seismic reflection techniques for fracture mapping in crystalline rocks     

W.M. Moon  J.S. Kim  Ganpat Lodha  Mulu Serzu  Nash Soonawala 《Engineering Geology》1993,34(3-4):261-280

Surface reflection seismic techniques have the capability of mapping subsurface geological features without disturbing the rock mass. They also have an added capability of penetrating to a much deeper depth than any other geophysical technique, including the ground probing radar. However, the successful application of reflection seismic techniques in crystalline rocks has in general been more difficult than in sedimentary basins, because of the irregular geometry and low acoustic impedance contrasts across geological boundaries. In this paper, we describe the imaging of fracture zones in crystalline rocks. Effective data processing, carefully modified from the conventional approaches, was applied on two high-resolution field data previously collected by different contractors. The strategy included enhancement of the signal hidden under the large-amplitude scattering noise, through pre- and post-stack processing such as shot f-k filtering, residual statics and careful muting after NMO correction. Two sets of low S/N test data from Canada and Sweden are analyzed in this research. The reflected energy in these data sets appeared to be more closely related to fracturing than to lithologic boundaries. The major fracture zones at shallow depth have been mapped with the desired resolution and can be correlated to the available well-log and seismic crosshole tomographic data. Once the surface waves were removed, shallow reflectors in the fracture zones could be identified and analyzed on the field records. Focusing analysis of the seismic image was performed in the constant-offset section to investigate the trends of major fracture zones. The complex attributes were also analyzed to determine whether they could be applied to the shallow fracture zones. Instantaneous frequency plots outline the intense fracturing zone and instantaneous phase plots identify the major and minor fractures, and other coherent events with different dip attitudes which interfere with each other.  相似文献