Linking Inca Terraces With Landslide Occurrence In The Ticsani Valley, Peru
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https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences14110315 <-- shared paper
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[takes me back to my engineering geology days in the Southern Hemisphere, including my thesis – with a healthy dose of spatial analysis and modeling – and all with a specific use; what is not to like?]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #landslides #massmovement #Inca #Andes #irrigation #terraces #Peru #SouthAmerica #confusionmatrix #logisticregression #geohazards #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #terracing #water #hydrology #surfaceflow #geomechanical #geotechnical #Ticsani #algorithm #processes #geostatistics #river #slope #agriculture #farming #soils #geology #risk #hazard #publicsafety #fem #model #modeling #rainfall #precipitation #permeability #groundwater #subsurfaceflow #instability #fluvial #erosion

Did you ever think that the #geomechanical stress field and magnitudes beneath our feet are pretty well known? Did you think that numerical models of said stress field are pretty accurate? (SPOILER ALERT: They're not!) So why do we bother with models anyway?
We recently published a method on how to improve a stress field models significance. We're using a wide range of possible stress states, additional constraints on the stress state an a Bayesian weighting. Details: https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB024855