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A Novel Union of LiDAR and InSAR Analysis to Explore the Spatial Distribution and Temporal Behavior of Landslides in Yellowstone National Park
Department: Geology
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Kyra Bornong
Idaho State University
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8/3/2023
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City: Pocatello
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Landslide inventories are critical to assessing landslide hazards and to understanding processes that drive long-term landscape evolution. Here we use LiDAR to create a landslide inventory of all of Yellowstone National Park and InSAR time series analysis to assess the activity state of those landslides. We manually mapped and classified ~1800 deposits in LiDAR and measured ~200 of them actively creeping between May 2017 and October 2021. We determined that most landslides occur as flow-type movements and bedrock lithology likely influences landslide distribution throughout the park. Creeping movement (on cm/year scales) occurs on many of the largest landslide deposits and creep rates vary over time. We identified continuous, event-based, and seasonal displacement patterns that likely reflect different failure mechanisms and forcing processes. This project lays a robust foundation for landslide hazard assessment and landscape evolution investigations in Yellowstone.

A Novel Union of LiDAR and InSAR Analysis to Explore the Spatial Distribution and Temporal Behavior of Landslides in Yellowstone National Park

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