Freshwaterhack Project: Data integration for multi-hazard risk assessment


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Abstract

Geospatial tools and visualization is needed to develop a data and model integration pipeline for assessing landslide hazards.  This project is one component of multi-hazard (earthquake, flood, tsunami) assessment in watersheds spanning mountain peaks to coastal shores.  A common challenge in interpreting and validating distributed models is in comparing these data to direct observations on the ground. Modeling data of landslides for regional planning intentionally cover large regions and many landslides, incorporating different temporal and spatial sampling frequency and stochastic processes than observations derived from landslide inventories developed in the field. This kind of analysis requires geospatial tools to enable visualization, assessment of spatial statistics and extrapolation of spatial data linked to hierarchical relationships, such as downstream hydrologic impacts.  
Landslide geohazards can be identified through numerous methods, which are generally grouped into quantitative (e.g., Hammond et al. 1992; Wu and Sidle 1995) and qualitative (e.g., Gupta and Joshi 1990; Carrara et al. 1991; Lee et al. 2007) approaches. Mechanistic process-based models based on limited equilibrium analysis can quantify the roles of topography, soils, vegetation, and hydrology (when coupled with a hydrologic model) in landsliding in quantitative forms (Montgomery and Dietrich 1994; Miller 1995; Pack et al. 1998).  Processed-based models are good for predicting the initiation of landslides even where landslide inventories are lacking, but missed predictions likely stem from parameter uncertainty and unrepresented processes in model structure implicitly captured in qualitative approaches. A common qualitative approach develops landslide susceptibility based on experts rating multiple landscape attributes.  These approaches provide general indices rather than quantified probabilities of relative landslide susceptibility applicable to the study location and cannot represent causal factors or triggering conditions that change in time (van Western et al. 2006). Both approaches rarely provide a probabilistic hazard in space and time, requisite for landslide risk assessments beneficial for planning and decision making (Smith 2013).
This project will start the groundwork to integrate numerical modeling developed by University of Washington  with qualitative assessments of landslide susceptibility performed by Washington Department of Natural Resources.

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Coordinate System/Geographic Projection:
WGS84 EPSG:4326
Coordinate Units:
['Decimal degrees']
North Latitude
49.8579°
East Longitude
-120.3246°
South Latitude
47.2827°
West Longitude
-123.1188°

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CONUS digital elevation model of 1/16 degree grid cells Resource Christina Norton Public & Shareable
Workflow for landslide models in Island County, WA Resource Christina Norton Public & Shareable
LiDAR derived Bare Earth DEM 30ft grid (ASCII) Resource Victoria Nelson Public & Shareable
Landlab Landslide Component Explained Resource Ronda Strauch Public & Shareable
Root Cohesion Table Resource Ronda Strauch Public & Shareable
Island County Contributing Area from 30ft Lidar Dinf Resource RECEP CAKIR Private & Shareable
Island County Slope from 30ft Lidar Dinf Resource RECEP CAKIR Private & Shareable
chelan_watershed_boundary Resource Jeffrey Keck Public & Shareable

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CAKIR, R., J. Keck, C. Bandaragoda, R. Strauch, E. Istanbulluoglu, Y. Zou, V. Nelson, S. S. Nudurupati (2017). Freshwaterhack Project: Data integration for multi-hazard risk assessment, HydroShare, http://www.hydroshare.org/resource/3a3819de85e14fd2bb5ee9e05e616258

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Victoria Nelson 7 years, 4 months ago

Here are a couple of more resources for learning how to use Landlab:

https://www.hydroshare.org/resource/0e49df4b97f94247a8d52bac4adeb14a/

https://www.hydroshare.org/resource/25040a158eac4730b31eb5ebcc3a7339/

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