Airborne laser scanning of forested landslides characterization: terrain model quality and visualization

• Main Authors: Razak, Khamarrul Azahari, Straatsma, Menno W., van Westen, Cees J., Malet, Jean Philippe, de Jong, Steven M.
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier Science BV 2011
• Subjects: G Geography (General); T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/28672/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.11.003
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Mapping complex landslides under forested terrain requires an appropriate quality of digital terrain models (DTMs), which preserve small diagnostic features for landslide classification such as primary and secondary scarps, cracks, and displacement structures (flow-type and rigid-type). Optical sate...