In recent decades, natural disasters caused by landslides have caused many deaths and economic losses in Brazil and as worldwide. Susceptibility maps to mass movements have been used to indicate areas susceptible to these phenomena in mountainous regions, allowing better planning of the land use. This paper presents susceptibility maps to mass movements, based on morphometric variables natural and environmental...
With the advancement of computer technology in recent decades came along the advancement of digital data and the ease of obtaining this information gathering from the World Wide Web. Digital models of ground elevations, for example, which generated data of complex and difficult access some years ago, are now available freely on the internet in different resolutions and accuracies for the entire globe. Many work...
The dissertation in question treats about GIS techniques applied to morphometric and erosion risk analysis used on ridges located in the southern portion of the Massif Central of Ceará. The ridges in question are located in the South Central region of Ceará State, between the towns of Acopiara, Piquet Carneiro, Mombaça and Catarina. This area contains a set of topographic reliefs between 500 meters to a little ...