The objective of landslide hazard zonation is subdivision of an area into zones with an equal susceptibility to or probability for the occurrence of mass movements. Many different methods have been proposed in the literature. These methods have in common the combination and integration of a series of input maps, which is a time consuming process if done manually.
About the cover : The natural landscape transformed by human action : only the hilltops still carry the forest that once draped the hillsides and valleys around the village of Khodi in lower Nepal. The slope have been terraced and now stand under rice; irrigation controls the flow of water into the stream below. But evidence of the natural forces at work here still marks the countryside. The in…
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is the organized activity by which people : • Measure aspects of geographic phenomena and processes; • Represent these measurements, usually in the form of a computer database, to emphasize spatial themes, entities and relationships; • Operate upon these representation to produce more measurements, and to discover new relationship by integrating dis…
Khusus untuk tenaga pendidik, baik guru maupun dosen, bahkan pengawas dan widyaiswara, keterampilan riset menjadi kebutuhan dasar. Demi kepentingan karier dan profesinya, mereka membutuhkan pengetahuan, pengalaman sekaligus keterampilan riset yang tepat. Oleh karena itu, buku ini akan sangat bermanfaat bauk untuk tenaga pendidik, peserta didik maupun widyaiswara dan pengawass, khususnya dalam p…