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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.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • 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

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

  • 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

  • UT code for WoS article

    000812165000002

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85131463867