Authors
Alexander L Handwerger, Adam M Booth, Mong‐Han Huang, Eric J Fielding
Publication date
2021/3
Journal
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface
Volume
126
Issue
3
Pages
e2020JF005898
Description
The hazardous impact and erosive potential of slow‐moving landslides depends on landslide properties including velocity, size, and frequency of occurrence. However, constraints on size, in particular, subsurface geometry, are lacking because these types of landslides rarely fully evacuate material to create measurable hillslope scars. Here, we use pixel offset tracking with data from the NASA/JPL Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar to measure the three‐dimensional surface deformation of 134 slow‐moving landslides in the northern California Coast Ranges. We apply volume conservation to infer the actively deforming thickness, volume, geometric scaling, and frictional strength of each landslide. These landslides move at average rates between ∼0.1–2 m/yr and have active areas of ∼6.10 × 103–2.35 × 106 m2, inferred mean thicknesses of ∼1.1–25 m, and volumes of ∼7.01 × 103–9.75 × 10 …
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