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http://dx.doi.org/10.3741/JKWRA.2021.54.12.1205

A study of applying soil moisture for improving false alarm rates in monitoring landslides  

Oh, Seungcheol (Civil, Architectural and Environmental System Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Jeong, Jaehwan (Center for Built Environment, Sungkyunkwan University)
Choi, Minha (Department of Water Resources, Sungkyunkwan University)
Yoon, Hongsik (Civil, Architectural and Environmental System Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
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Journal of Korea Water Resources Association / v.54, no.12, 2021 , pp. 1205-1214 More about this Journal
Abstract
Precipitation is one of a major causes of landslides by rising of pore water pressure, which leads to fluctuations of soil strength and stress. For this reason, precipitation is the most frequently used to determine the landslide thresholds. However, using only precipitation has limitations in predicting and estimating slope stability quantitatively for reducing false alarm events. On the other hand, Soil Moisture (SM) has been used for calculating slope stability in many studies since it is directly related to pore water pressure than precipitation. Therefore, this study attempted to evaluate the appropriateness of applying soil moisture in determining the landslide threshold. First, the reactivity of soil saturation level to precipitation was identified through time-series analysis. The precipitation threshold was calculated using daily precipitation (Pdaily) and the Antecedent Precipitation Index (API), and the hydrological threshold was calculated using daily precipitation and soil saturation level. Using a contingency table, these two thresholds were assessed qualitatively. In results, compared to Pdaily only threshold, Goesan showed an improvement of 75% (Pdaily + API) and 42% (Pdaily + SM) and Changsu showed an improvement of 33% (Pdaily + API) and 44% (Pdaily + SM), respectively. Both API and SM effectively enhanced the Critical Success Index (CSI) and reduced the False Alarm Rate (FAR). In the future, studies such as calculating rainfall intensity required to cause/trigger landslides through soil saturation level or estimating rainfall resistance according to the soil saturation level are expected to contribute to improving landslide prediction accuracy.
Keywords
Precipitation; Soil moisture; Antecedent precipitation index; Landslides threshold;
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