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In the mountainous area of southwest China, there is a large number of large hydropower stations that have already been built or under construction. The construction and the safety of the operation of hydropower stations directly affect the residents’ safety of life and property on both sides of the downstream river. Landslide hazards are one of the main problems affecting the construction and operation of hydropower stations. Therefore, it is currently more urgent to evaluate landslide susceptibility within the basin. The goal of this paper is to carry out landslide susceptibility mapping that affects the construction and operation of hydropower stations. In the case of a large research area and lack of landslide hazard data, this paper selects the sample of blocking river landslide in a larger area with similar topography and geological conditions and applies the quantitative method to carry out landslide sensitivity mapping. In this paper, the slope unit works as the evaluation unit, 191 landslide sample data were obtained, and nine landslide conditioning factors (slope, aspect, curvature, lithology, distance to fault, distance to the river, land use, soil, and the topographic wetness index (TWI)) were obtained. Combined with the quantitative frequency model (FR model), the landslide susceptibility map was obtained. The research process and results show that (1) when the study area is large, the landslide data is scarce, and it is difficult to get the landslide inventory map; the landslide samples can be selected in a larger area with similar topography and geological conditions. It is feasible to use the analysis data of landslide samples to evaluate the landslide susceptibility; (2) for specific industry applications such as hydropower station operation safety, the landslide evaluation range can be reduced by the spatial correlation between landslide aspect and river flow direction, which is beneficial to the management department to reduce the scope of attention; and (3) the verification results show that the slope unit can be used for quantitative evaluation of landslide sensitivity based on the FR model and can obtain the highest evaluation accuracy. The main advantage of this method is its capability to carry out landslide susceptibility mapping with quantitative methods and to ensure that higher mapping accuracy is obtained in areas where landslide hazard data is lacking.
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We thank the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency for the DEM data and United States Geological Survey for the Resources Satellite Data. We also thank National Earth System Science Data Center for soil data and Tsinghua University for land use data.
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This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41102225).
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Liu, H., Li, X., Meng, T. et al. Susceptibility mapping of damming landslide based on slope unit using frequency ratio model. Arab J Geosci 13, 790 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-020-05689-w
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