CALCATERRA , Domenico

Climate change has increased the likelihood of the occurrence of disasters like wildfires, floods, storms, and landslides worldwide in the last years. Weather conditions change continuously and rapidly, and wildfires are occurring repeatedly and diffusing with higher intensity. The burnt catchments are known, in many parts of the world, as one...

Rainfall-induced shallow landslides represent a serious threat in hilly and mountain areas around the world. The mountainous landscape of the Cinque Terre (eastern Liguria, Italy) is increasingly popular for both Italian and foreign tourists, most of which visit this outstanding terraced coastal landscape to enjoy a beach holiday and to...

Landslide inventory maps are effective and easily understandable products both for experts, such as engineering geologists, and for nonexperts, including decision-makers, planners, and civil protection managers. At present, the Cinque Terre landscape suffers from the massive abandonment of cultivations on the terraces, with negative...

The research is focused on the Vernazza catchment, an area of 5,75 km2 belonging to the Vernazza municipality in the Cinque Terre National Park, Italy; here, landslide susceptibility maps are produced using two different statistical methods by analyzing several intrinsic factors controlling landslides. It is also intended to evaluate the maps...

Statistical landslide susceptibility mapping is a topic in complete and constant evolution, especially since the introduction of machine learning (ML) methods. A new methodological approach is here presented, based on the ensemble of artificial neural network, generalized boosting model and maximum entropy ML algorithms. Such approach has been...

Slope failures are among the most hazardous natural disasters, causing severe damage to public and privateproperties. Casualties owing to landslides have been growing in many areas of the world, especially since the increase of climate changes and precipitations. To this, decision-makers need trustworthy information that may be employed to...