
This compact disc contains digital files for:

Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Special Paper 45, Protocol for Shallow Landslide Susceptibility Mapping

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AVAILABILITY

This publication is issued by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries. It is available online.


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AUTHORSHIP

Title and authorship:
Special Paper 45, Protocol for Shallow Landslide Susceptibility Mapping
by William J. Burns, Ian P. Madin, and Katherine A. Mickelson, Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, 
800 NE Oregon Street #28, Suite 965, Portland, Oregon 97232-21622. 
e-mail:  bill.burns@dogami.state.or.us;  ian.madin@dogami.state.or.us


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CONTENTS

Along with this readme file, the CD contains: 

1. SP_45 folder:
   - SP-45_print.pdf, format suitable for high-quality printing
   - SP-45_onscreen.pdf, format suitable for onscreen viewing
   - Appendix-A folder: Factor of Safety values table in Excel and PDF formats and DOGAMI Open-File Report O-12-05, Regional Landslide Hazard Maps of the City of Silverton, Marion County, Oregon, Plate 2 PDF - Plate included to provide an example of shallow landslide susceptibility mapping.. 

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2. SP-42 folder: DOGAMI Special Paper 42, Protocol for Inventory Mapping of Landslide Deposits from Light Detection and Ranging (Lidar) Imagery, by William J. Burns and Ian P. Madin. The SP-42 file set consists of:
   a. Text report (print and onscreen versions), 30 pp.
   b. "geodatabase_template" folder:
      - Landslide_Inventory_Template-ArcInfo.gdb - includes relationship classes between the feature classes
      - Landslide_Inventory_Template-ArcView.gdb
      - sr_Toolbox.tbx - additional tools: Find Unmatched Features and Unjoin Layers
   c. Readme.txt file


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DISCLAIMER

The Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries is publishing this paper because the subject matter is consistent with the mission of the Department. The paper is not intended to be used for site specific planning. The protocol described in this paper cannot serve as a substitute for site-specific investigations by qualified practitioners. Site-specific data may give results that differ from those which would result from use of the protocol described in this paper. The hazards of an individual site should be assessed through geotechnical or engineering geology investigation by qualified practitioners.


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FUNDING

This study was funded in part by the U.S. Geologic Survey (USGS) Landslide Hazards Program under Cooperative Agreement #05CRGR0002.

