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Geometric and kinematic features of a landslide in Mabian Sichuan, China, derived from UAV photography

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This paper presents the geometric and kinematic features of a landslide in Mabian, Sichuan, China, which occurred on 5 May 2018, derived from data of UAV photography. In combination with a field investigation, the UAV data permits to delineate the source area, overlap area, and accumulation area of this landslide. Coupled with DEM, its total source and accumulation volumes are estimated and the motion process is analyzed using the video record. The results show that Mabian landslide is a planar rocky downslope movement with a total horizontal projection area of 24,871 m2, source volume of 13,750 m3, accumulation volume of 213,200 m3, and the expansion rate of 55%. The sliding video demonstrates that the movement duration of the landsliding is about 16 s with a mean velocity 15.3 m/s, and the maximum velocity is 22.8 m/s. This study shows that the UAV-based aerial photography technology allow us to well characterize landslides rapidly in a quantitative manner.

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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFB0504104) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41661144037).

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    Siyuan Ma, Chong Xu, Xiaoyi Shao, Pengfei Zhang, Xiaohua Liang & Yingying Tian

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Ma, S., Xu, C., Shao, X. et al. Geometric and kinematic features of a landslide in Mabian Sichuan, China, derived from UAV photography. Landslides 16, 373–381 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-018-1104-z

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