Assessing soil erosion hazards using land-use change and landslide frequency ratio method: A case study of Sabaragamuwa province, Sri Lanka

S Senanayake, B Pradhan, A Huete, J Brennan - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
This study aims to identify the vulnerable landscape areas using landslide frequency ratio
and land-use change associated soil erosion hazard by employing geo-informatics …

The impacts of landscape changes on annual mean land surface temperature in the tropical mountain city of Sri Lanka: A case study of Nuwara Eliya (1996–2017)

M Ranagalage, Y Murayama, D Dissanayake… - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Although urbanization has contributed to improving living conditions, it has had negative
impacts on the natural environment in urbanized areas. Urbanization has changed the …

Spatial forecasting of the landscape in rapidly urbanizing hill stations of South Asia: A case study of Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka (1996–2037)

M Ranagalage, R Wang, M Gunarathna… - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Forecasting landscape changes is vital for developing and implementing sustainable urban
planning. Presently, apart from lowland coastal cities, mountain cities (ie, hill stations) are …

Landslide vulnerability assessment based on entropy method: A case study from Kegalle district, Sri Lanka

ENC Perera, DT Jayawardana, P Jayasinghe… - Modeling Earth Systems …, 2019 - Springer
The concept of landslide vulnerability to a given location is hard to quantify. Few studies
have been carried to determine susceptibility using social and physical factors. This study is …

Modeling predictive suitability to determine potential areas for establishing wind power plants in Sri Lanka

AG Amarasinghe, ENC Perera - Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, 2021 - Springer
Many of renewable energy sources significantly contributing for fulfill increasing energy
demand while reducing greenhouse gas emissions in all around the world. Among various …

Introducing a geospatial database and GIS techniques as a decision-making tool for multicriteria decision analysis methods in landslides susceptibility assessment

C Nefros, C Loupasakis - Bulletin of the Geological …, 2022 - ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr
Every year landslides cause many fatalities and destroy numerous infrastructures around
the world. Due to their catastrophic results, scientific research studies are conducted, on a …

Participatory Landslide Inventory (PLI): an online tool for the development of a landslide inventory

ENC Perera, A Gunaratne, SBD Samarasinghe - Complexity, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A landslide inventory is a detailed register of the spatial distribution, geometry, and attributes
of landslides and is essential for landslide hazard analysis, risk management, regional …

Introduce a framework for landslide risk assessment using geospatial analysis: a case study from Kegalle District, Sri Lanka

ENC Perera, DT Jayawardana, M Ranagalage… - Modeling Earth Systems …, 2020 - Springer
Landslides have become a frequent natural hazard and pressing severe environmental
issues in Sri Lanka. The upward trend in high-intensity rainfall events, growing population …

Quantitative land-use and landslide assessment: A case study in Rize, Türkiye

N Kasahara, Y Gonda, N Huvaj - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
Currently, many studies have reported that many landslides occur in tea or rubber plantation
areas. In these areas, it is important to make a landslide susceptibility map and to take …

Landslide Susceptibility in Majalengka Regency, West Java Province

S Selaby, E Kusratmoko… - IOP Conference Series …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Majalengka is one of districts in Indonesia which is susceptible to landslides. Landslides in
Majalengka caused enormous losses such as damage to infrastructure, loss of property, and …