Cooperative Work on Slope Stability in Kentucky: Landslide Susceptibility for the Jellico Assessment Area of the Stearns Ranger District in the Daniel Boone National Forest

The purpose of this project is to provide the United States Forest Service with landslide susceptibility assessments for the Jellico Assessment Area of the Stearns Ranger District of the Daniel Boone National Forest. These landslide susceptibility assessments are accomplished in two ways. First, a digitized inventory of landslide extents will be produced from remote sensed imagery, for monitoring and characterization. These landslides will be field checked to confirm the digitized extents. Second, a geomorphic-based statistical landslide susceptibility model using a dual machine learning approach will leverage the landslide inventory and other lidar derivatives to create a landslide susceptibility map for the area. Instruction from Kentucky Geological Survey researchers will be done to train Forest Service staff on model interpretations and to encourage independent computations of the susceptibility model. These landslide susceptibility models should assist in future mitigation plans and land use management decisions.