Deep learning reveals one of Earth's largest landslide terrain in Patagonia
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61988987%3A17310%2F22%3AN2302J1Z" target="_blank" >RIV/61988987:17310/22:N2302J1Z - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X22002783?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X22002783?via%3Dihub</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117642" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117642</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Deep learning reveals one of Earth's largest landslide terrain in Patagonia
Original language description
Hundreds of basaltic plateau margins east of the Patagonian Cordillera are undermined by numerous giant slope failures. However, the overall extent of this widespread type of plateau collapse remains unknown and incompletely captured in local maps. To detect giant slope failures consistently throughout the region, we train two convolutional neural networks (CNNs), AlexNet and U-Net, with Sentinel-2 optical data and TanDEM-X topographic data on elevation, surface roughness, and curvature. We validated the performance of these CNNs with independent testing data and found that AlexNet performed better when learned on topographic data, and UNet when learned on optical data. AlexNet predicts a total landslide area of 12,000 km2 in a study area of 450,000 km2, and thus one of Earth's largest clusters of giant landslides. These are mostly lateral spreads and rotational failures in effusive rocks, particularly eroding the margins of basaltic plateaus; some giant landslides occurred along shores of former glacial lakes, but are least prevalent in Quaternary sedimentary rocks. Given the roughly comparable topographic, climatic, and seismic conditions in our study area, we infer that basalts topping weak sedimentary rocks may have elevated potential for large-scale slope failure. Judging from the many newly detected and previously unknown landslides, we conclude that CNNs can be a valuable tool to detect large-scale slope instability at the regional scale. However, visual inspection is still necessary to validate results and correctly outline individual landslide source and deposit areas.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10508 - Physical geography
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-16013S" target="_blank" >GA19-16013S: Giant landslides in glacier foreland: missing story in the evolution of Patagonian Ice Sheet and related glacial lakes</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
ISSN
0012821X
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Volume of the periodical
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Issue of the periodical within the volume
September
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
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UT code for WoS article
000812165000002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85131463867