IJSRP, Volume 4, Issue 9, September 2014 Edition [ISSN 2250-3153]
Dr. S.Srileka
Abstract:
Landslides are among the major natural disasters or calamities in the world. In hilly terrains of India, including Himalayan mountains landslides have been a major and widely spread natural disasters that strike life and property almost perennially and occupy a position of major concern. The present study Micro level Landslide Hazard Zonation in Sirumalai Area of Dindigul District, Tamilnadu involves in generating complete spatial and non-spatial data collected from different sources .How ever the taluk level maps will act as a basic spatial data contributing many micro level features .The other sources are remote sensing data which will undergo digital image processing to build a themes on land use ,slope, geology ,lineament ,drainage etc. and these items will be vectorized to send it to GIS environment .GPS also act as a data source to some aspects which are not available.