Abstract:Taiwan Island poses very rough and steep terrain along the Central Range to east coast with only about 30% of plain area along the west coast. It suffers from strikes from typhoon and flush storms almost every year. For example, the Mindulle typhoon in July 2004 carried heavy rainfalls and raged viciously to the several counties in Middle Taiwan. The aim of this paper was to understand and document the caused landslides by means of a model using satellite images in order to assess the potential risk, to build … Show more
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