Risk Assessment of Riverine Terraces: The Case of the Chenyulan River Watershed in Nantou County, Taiwan
The purpose of this study is to establish a method of hazard assessment for the river terraces along the Chenyulan River and use 40 of them as protected objects. Using a geographic information system, the researchers extracted nine parameters for such terraces. These are length to attack shore, dist...
Main Authors: | Ji-Yuan Lin, Jen-Chih Chao, Yung-Ming Hsu |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2022-01-01
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Series: | Applied Sciences |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/3/1375 |
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