Constructing a complete landslide inventory dataset for the 2018 monsoon disaster in Kerala, India, for land use change analysis

Hao, Lina; Rajaneesh A.,; van Westen, Cees; Sajinkumar K. S.,; Martha, Tapas Ranjan; Jaiswal, Pankaj; McAdoo, Brian G.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2899-2020

Articles | Volume 12, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2899-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2899-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 4

Data description paper

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16 Nov 2020

Data description paper |

| 16 Nov 2020

Constructing a complete landslide inventory dataset for the 2018 monsoon disaster in Kerala, India, for land use change analysis

Lina Hao, Rajaneesh A., Cees van Westen, Sajinkumar K. S., Tapas Ranjan Martha, Pankaj Jaiswal, and Brian G. McAdoo

Data sets

Landslide inventory of the 2018 monsoon rainfall in Kerala, India C. J. van Westen https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-x6c-y7x2

Short summary

Kerala in India was subjected to an extreme rainfall event in the monsoon season of 2018 which triggered extensive floods and landslides. In order to study whether the landslides were related to recent land use changes, we generated an accurate and almost complete landslide inventory based on two existing datasets and the detailed interpretation of images from the Google Earth platform. The final dataset contains 4728 landslides with attributes of land use in 2010 and land use in 2018.