Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/2122/15470
Authors: Fabbri, Andrea G.* 
Patera, Antonio* 
Title: Spatial Uncertainty of Target Patterns Generated by Different Prediction Models of Landslide Susceptibility
Journal: Applied Sciences 
Series/Report no.: /11 (2021)
Publisher: MDPI
Issue Date: 8-Apr-2021
DOI: 10.3390/app11083341
URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/8/3341/htm
Keywords: ranking
uncertainty pattern
landslide susceptibility
cross validation
prediction pattern
target pattern
prediction model
Subject ClassificationLandslides 
Abstract: his contribution exposes the relative uncertainties associated with prediction patterns of landslide susceptibility. The patterns are based on relationships between direct and indirect spatial evidence of landslide occurrences. In a spatial database constructed for the modeling, direct evidence is the presence of landslide trigger areas, while indirect evidence is the presence of corresponding multivariate context in the form of digital maps. Five mathematical modeling functions are applied to capture and integrate evidence, indirect and direct, for separating landslide-presence areas from the areas of landslide assumed absence. Empirical likelihood ratios are used first to represent the spatial relationships. These are then combined by the models into prediction scores, ordered, equal-area ranked, displayed, and synthesized as prediction-rate curves. A critical task is assessing how uncertainty levels vary across the different prediction patterns, i.e., the modeling results visualized as fixed, colored groups of ranks. This is obtained by a strategy of iterative cross validation that uses only part of the direct evidence to model the pattern and the rest to validate it as a predictor. The conducted experiments in a mountainous area in northern Italy point at a research challenge that can now be confronted with relative rank-based statistics and iterative cross-validation processes. The uncertainty properties of prediction patterns are mostly unknown nevertheless they are critical for interpreting and justifying prediction results.
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