Slow-moving landslides near the U.S. West Coast mapped from ALOS and ALOS-2 InSAR, 2007-2019

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Publication Date: 2021-08-13
Start Date: 2007-01-05
End Date: 2019-10-24

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Yuankun, X., Lu, Z., Kim, J., and Schulz, W.H., 2021, Slow-moving landslides near the U.S. West Coast mapped from ALOS and ALOS-2 InSAR, 2007-2019: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9OY7FZK.

Summary

This data set provides a polygon shapefile delineating relatively large, slow-moving (4-17 cm/year in the radar line-of-sight direction) landslides in the continental U.S. western coastal states (California, Oregon, and Washington). The polygons also are provided in a Google Earth .kmz file. Delineated landslides were identified from displacement signals captured by InSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) interferograms of ALOS PALSAR (Advanced Land Observing Satellite; Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar) images between 2007 and 2011, and ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 images between 2015 and 2019. The ALOS PALSAR images utilized cover the three states entirely; the ALOS-2 PALSAR images utilized cover primarily the western [...]

Summary

This data set provides a polygon shapefile delineating relatively large, slow-moving (4-17 cm/year in the radar line-of-sight direction) landslides in the continental U.S. western coastal states (California, Oregon, and Washington). The polygons also are provided in a Google Earth .kmz file. Delineated landslides were identified from displacement signals captured by InSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) interferograms of ALOS PALSAR (Advanced Land Observing Satellite; Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar) images between 2007 and 2011, and ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 images between 2015 and 2019. The ALOS PALSAR images utilized cover the three states entirely; the ALOS-2 PALSAR images utilized cover primarily the western half of the study area where 97.6% of the identified landslides are located. The Scene IDs of the used ALOS and ALOS-2 images are provided in text files. The 1/3 arc-second National Elevation Datasets from the U.S. Geological Survey (https://viewer.nationalmap.gov/basic/, last accessed November 12, 2020), and optical images available from Google Earth were utilized to assist in landslide identification.

Each polygon in the shapefile outlines the active area of a landslide. The active areas identified for a given landslide using the ALOS PALSAR and ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 interferograms differ slightly in some cases. For these, we used the larger polygon as the landslide boundary. The shapefile attribute table indicates which data were used to identify the landslide (“Comments”), and this is also indicated by the “Flag” field of the table, where values of 1, 2, and 3 indicate ALOS, ALOS2, and both datasets, respectively; a flag value of 4 was assigned for rock glaciers, which were only identified using ALOS data. The attribute table also provides areas of each polygon in square meters.

These data support a study described in:
Xu, Y., Schulz, W.H., Lu, Z., Kim, J., and Baxstrom, K., 2021, Geologic controls of slow-moving landslides near the U.S. west coast: Landslides, doi:10.1007/s10346-021-01732-3

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Point of Contact :: William H Schulz, U.S. Geological Survey, ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION
Originator :: Yuankun Xu, Zhong Lu, Jinwoo Kim, William H Schulz
Metadata Contact :: GHSC Data Steward, Geologic Hazards Science Center
Publisher :: U.S. Geological Survey
USGS Mission Area :: Natural Hazards
SDC Data Owner :: Geologic Hazards Science Center
Distributor :: U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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summary_metadata.xml Original FGDC Metadata	View	12.7 KB	application/fgdc+xml
ALOS_sceneIDs.txt “ALOS scene IDs”		102.95 KB	text/plain
ALOS2_sceneIDs.txt “ALOS2 scene IDs”		10.4 KB	text/plain
wcSlides_polygons.zip		918.69 KB	application/zip

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Xu, Y., Schulz, W.H., Lu, Z., Kim, J., and Baxstrom, K., 2021, Geologic controls of slow-moving landslides near the U.S. west coast: Landslides, doi:10.1007/s10346-021-01732-3	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-021-01732-3

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Data presented herein were created to document the locations and boundaries of large, active, slow-moving landslides in the west U.S. coastal states (California, Oregon, and Washington) between 2007 and 2019. Data may be useful for advancing understanding of landsliding processes and hazards near the U.S. West Coast, providing test datasets for landslide susceptibility modeling, and assisting future landslide hazard mitigation efforts.

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