Estimated No Landslide Zone for the Lombardy region, Italy

Areas with a very low probability of shallow landslide occurrence according to a geological criterion. The zonation considers as variables the terrain slope and the Intact Uniaxial Compressive Strength (IUCS), an index dependent on the lithology that describes the maximum stress that a material can take before failing. In broad terms, areas with very low inclination (<5°) were included with no other constraint. On the other hand, terrains with low (5°-20°) or very high (>70°) inclination required a resistant terrain (with an IUCS of at least 100 MPa) in order to be included.

The vector layers is in WGS 84/ UTM zone 32N (EPSG:32632), covering the whole region of Lombardy, Italy, with an area of 13,325 km2.

The map production process details are discussed in Xu et al. 2024. If you use the dataset, please, cite also the paper:

Qiongjie Xu, Vasil Yordanov, Lorenzo Amici & Maria Antonia Brovelli (2024) Landslide susceptibility mapping using ensemble machine learning methods: a casestudy in Lombardy, Northern Italy, International Journal of Digital Earth, 17:1, 2346263, DOI:10.1080/17538947.2024.2346263

The layer is produced as part of the "Geoinformatics and Earth Observation for Landslide Monitoring" Italy-Vietnam.

The work is partially funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation within the project “Geoinformatics and Earth Observation for Landslide Monitoring” CUP D19C21000480001.