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Landslide Susceptibility Zonation Mapping Using Bivariate Statistical Frequency Ratio method and GIS: A Case Study in Part of SH 37 Ghat Road, Nadugani, Panthalur Taluk, The Nilgiris

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Landslide is more universal calamity in mountain areas. It is a threat to life and socio-economy. The ghat section Calicut–Nilampur–Gudalur State Highway 37 (SH-37) comes under the Survey of India toposheet 58A/7. It is important road network to connect Calicut. The study area is covered in 6.5 km ghat section of 103/6 to 109/8 km stone on SH 37. This study was carried out to prepare landslide susceptibility zonation (LSZ) mapping on 1:50,000 scale using frequency ratio model. Seventeen parameters such as elevation, slope, slope aspect, curvature, road buffer, drainage buffer, lineament buffer, land use, geomorphology, run-off, drainage density, drainage frequency, lineament density, lineament frequency, weathering condition, soil thickness and geology were considered as landslide-inducing factors. LSZ map was organized by manipulating association between the landslide persuade factors and old landslide using this model. Study area has grouped into five levels of susceptibility groups such as very low, low, moderate, high and very high. The LSZ map was validated by the old landslide record data collected from field. The landslide inventory percentage fall in very low hazard is 1.02%, 1.03% under low-susceptibility, 7.22% in moderate-susceptibility, 39.18% present in high-susceptibility and 51.55% noticed in very high-susceptibility zone, and using these data, the 18 rock vulnerable cut slopes were identified.

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Acknowledgement

The authors thank Prof. R. Sethuraman, former Vice-Chancellor of SASTRA University, Thanjavur, for having given us facilities to carry out this work, Dr. Bhoop Singh, Advisor/Scientist G, NRDMS division, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, for the financial support for research project entitled ‘Kinematic analysis for planar failure conditions of rock slope along 6.5 Km Ghat Section of SH 37, Gudalur, The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu’ and encouragement provided to carry out this work. The authors thank anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions to improve the quality of the research article.

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    S. E. Saranaathan & S. Mani

  2. Centre for Geoinformatics, Jamsetji Tata School of Disaster Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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  3. School of Earth & Atmospheric Science, Department of Applied Geology, University of Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

    S. Prasanna Venkatesh

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Saranaathan, S.E., Mani, S., Ramesh, V. et al. Landslide Susceptibility Zonation Mapping Using Bivariate Statistical Frequency Ratio method and GIS: A Case Study in Part of SH 37 Ghat Road, Nadugani, Panthalur Taluk, The Nilgiris. J Indian Soc Remote Sens 49, 275–291 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12524-020-01207-3

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