Using remote sensing in the Tibetan part of national highway 317

Author

YU, Lin-qing ; LU, An-xin ; WANG, Li-hong ; JIA, Zhi-yu ; RAN, De-fu

Author_Institution

State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental Engineering, Research Institute, the Chinese Academy of Science, Lanzhou 730000, China

fYear

2007

fDate

23-28 July 2007

Firstpage

2983

Lastpage

2986

Abstract

The Tibetan part of National Highway 317 locates in Southeast of Tibet. Geological disasters such as landslides, debris flows and rock-falls happen frequently in this highway and bring about great damage in peoples’ lives and properties. How to make clear the geological status will be designed and maintained by disaster’s father of National Highway 317. In this paper, the Landsat ETM data, with the historical data and the investigation of field were used to study the landslides, debris flows and rockfalls of the Tibetan part of national highway 317 by image geometry correction, image enhancement and spatial analysis. The results shows there are 37 places of rock-falls, 177 places of debris flows and 69 places of landslides along the highway. The development and the characteristics of distribution of these geological disasters have been evaluated.

Keywords

Content addressable storage; Data engineering; Geographic Information Systems; Geology; Geometry; Image segmentation; Remote sensing; Road transportation; Satellites; Terrain factors; Tibet; geological disasters; national highway 317; remote sensing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Barcelona, Spain

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1212-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1212-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423471

Filename

4423471