Landslide inventory of the 2018 monsoon rainfall in Kerala, India

The state of Kerala in India was impacted by an extreme rainfall event in the Monsoon season of 2018, which triggered extensive floods, and landslides resulting in many casualties. In order to study whether the landslides that were triggered during this event were related with recent land use changes, we generated an accurate and almost complete landslide inventory based on two existing datasets (from the National Remote Sensing Center, and the Geological Survey of India) and detailed interpretation of images from different periods in the Google Earth platform. The final dataset contains 4728 landslides with attributes of district, data source, landslide type, landslide area, land use in 2010, and land use in 2018, etc. The dataset and accompanying metadata are related to several publications in international journals.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-x6c-y7x2
PID https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-jw-q61d
Metadata Access https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:161398
Provenance
Creator Westen, C.J. van (ORCID: 0000-0002-2992-902X)
Publisher Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
Contributor Westen, C.J. van; Dr C.J. van Westen (University of Twente)
Publication Year 2020
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Format Shapefile
Discipline Geology; Geosciences; Geospheric Sciences; Natural Sciences
Spatial Coverage (8.000 LON, 76.000 LAT); Kerala, India