%0 Journal Article
%T Landslide Cartography at the Region of Nabeul-Hammamet Based on Geographic Information System and Geomatic
%A Romdhan Haddad
%A Mariam Labiad
%A Mohamed Khaled Bouzid
%A Rym Rabia
%A Dallel Makloufi
%A Mohamed Chedly Rabia
%J International Journal of Geosciences
%P 1088-1101
%@ 2156-8367
%D 2016
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ijg.2016.79083
%X Landslides
are one </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">of the most significant natural damaging disasters
in hilly environ</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">ment</span><span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">&nbsp;</span><span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">[1]</span><span></span><span><span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">. The
location</span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">of our
study area </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">is to</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> the north of Tunisia, home to several manifestations of land
instabilities, we bring to study this area of interest by GIS and geomatic
approach to reduce social economic losses due to landslides.</span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">The performance of a
cartographic data base for the landslide study in the Cap-Bon region was
realized through studying geologic 1/50</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">,</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">000 and topographic 1/25</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">,</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">000 maps, aster optic Remote Sensing, land
observation, </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">and </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">climatologic seismic data. These data will be digitalized, georeferenced,
vectorized, spatially analyzed, classified and geotreated in order to produce a
landslides card. The findings have shown that fields with smooth and friable
lithology which are located at rather important seismic zones (more than 4 at
Richter¡¯s scale) have some stability. However</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">,</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> the most endangered zones are in the North-West
around Oued El Kbir and El Ain. Realizing this work help</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">s</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> to determine the most
hazardous zones so that policy makers have an effective field intervention.
%K Cartography
%K GIS
%K Geomatic
%K Landslide
%K Nabeul-Hammamet
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=71009