LAND-SE: A software for statistically based landslide susceptibility zonation, version 1.0

Abstract

Landslide susceptibility (LS) assessment provides a relative estimate of landslide spatial occurrence based on local terrain conditions. A literature review revealed that LS evaluation has been performed in many study areas worldwide using different methods, model types, different partition of the territory (mapping units) and a large variety of geo-environmental data. Among the different methods, statistical models have been largely used to evaluate LS, but the minority of articles presents a complete and comprehensive LS assessment that includes model performance analysis, prediction skills evaluation, and estimation of the errors and uncertainty. The aim of this paper is to describe LAND-SE (LANDslide Susceptibility Evaluation) software that performs susceptibility modelling and zonation using statistical models, quantifies the model performances, and the associated uncertainty. The software is implemented in R, a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. This provides users with the possibility to implement and improve the code with additional models, evaluation tools, or output types. The paper describes the software structure, explains input and output, and illustrates specific applications with maps and graphs. The LAND-SE script is delivered with a basic user guide and three example data sets.