Polygon inventory of 481 landslides mapped along the Arniko Highway, Nepal (NERC Grant NE/L002582/1)

Polygon shapefile including 481 coseismic and climate triggered landslides mapped along the Arniko Highway, Nepal, using a combination of field mapping and remote sensing. All mapped landslides were those visible in the landscape during the period 2017 – 2018. Landslides were mapped using a combination of field and remote sensing methodologies (see lineage). The inventory includes the landslide locations, perimeters (Length field), areas, types (for field mapped landslides), and whether a given landslide was mapped in the field or remotely (source field). These landslides were mapped for a range of purposes, from conducting landslide susceptibility assessments, to investigating landslide processes and preconditioning.

Date (Creation): 2021-06-21

Identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607780

Originator

University of Plymouth - Joshua Jones ( School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences )

Plymouth ,

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Landslides
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NERC_DDC

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Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

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Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

NEPAL [id=497000]

Date (Creation): 1979

Geographic identifier

Date (Revision): 2009

Geographic identifier

NPL

Date (Revision): 2009

Begin date: 2018-10-01

End date: 2020-10-01

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84 / UTM zone 45N (EPSG::32645)

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ESRI Shapefile ()

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British Geological Survey - Enquiries

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Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2011

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Pass: No

Statement: Landslides were mapped using a combination of field mapping and remote sensing. Field mapped landslides were identified during walk-over surveys conducted in October 2019. The locations and geometries of these landslides were recorded using a hand-held Garmin GPS unit and a TruPulse laser range finder. The exact geometries of these field-observed landslides were then corroborated using high resolution CNES/Airbus imagery from 2017 obtained from GoogleEarthPro. Furthermore, as not all landslides were accessible in the field, additional landslides in the landscape were mapped from the CNES/Airbus imagery alone, where all visible landslides in the imagery were delineated as polygons that included the source, runout and deposition zones of each landslide. For the field-mapped landslides, the landslide type was classified according to the terminology of Varnes (1958).