Natural environment

Natural environment

Related to any physical feature of the earth's natural environment.

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lahar

Natural environment; Landslide

Landslide or mudflow of pyroclastic material on the flank of a volcano; deposit produced by such a landslide. Lahars are described as wet if they are mixed with water derived from ...

landslide hazard map

Natural environment; Landslide

Hazard maps show the areal extent of threatening processes: where landslide processes have occurred in the past, where they occur now, and the likelihood in various areas that a ...

landslide inventory maps

Natural environment; Landslide

Inventories identify areas that appear to have failed by landslide processes, including debris flows and cut-and-fill failures.

landslide susceptibility map

Natural environment; Landslide

These maps go beyond an inventory map and depict areas that have the potential for landsliding. These areas are determined by correlating some of the principal factors that ...

landslide risk map

Natural environment; Landslide

The description of rocks, esp. in hand specimen and in outcrop, on the basis of such characteristics as color, mineralogic composition, and grain size show landslide hazards and ...

Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR)

Natural environment; Landslide

A technology that employs an airborne scanning laser rangefinder to produce detailed and accurate topographic surveys. LIDAR can be used to accurately measure the topography of ...

airborne laser swath mapping (ALSM)

Natural environment; Landslide

A technology that employs an airborne scanning laser rangefinder to produce detailed and accurate topographic surveys. LIDAR can be used to accurately measure the topography of ...