Landslide Susceptibility Mapping of Kabul and Faizabad, Afghanistan

This book mainly focuses on statistical approach for landslide susceptibility mapping. This study was implemented in two locations of Afghanistan. The first location was Kabul city and second one is to validate the result of the same study in Faizabad city. The high mountains, human activity, seasonal rainfall, and earthquakes are the main reasons of landslide and rock fall in the area. The risk is very high but very few studies have been done and there is no data available, Therefore, this book focuses on data collection, compare the statistical methodologies and their combination to create high accuracy of a landslide susceptibility map and the result was validated using the newly designed tool. The new designed tool not only specify the suitable critical boundary for the analysis with the lowest miss alarm rate but also provides a numerical argument to select the rest of the classification. Finally, from the result of these studies high accuracy landslide susceptibility maps were created for Kabul city, Faizabad city of Afghanistan and it is expected to be used in landslide prevention planning in the future.