ABSTRACT
A regional landslide hazards assessment was initiated by the Geological Survey of Canada along a proposed gas pipeline route in the Mackenzie Valley in Canada. This chapter presents the methodology and results of the three main activities of the assessment: Landslide mapping and inventorying; Landslide susceptibility mapping; and Application of an emerging Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar technique for slope monitoring. Comparison between landslide susceptibility zones and mapped landslide occurrences confirms that the applied qualitative parametric method appears a very promising tool for land management and landslide hazards mapping. The chapter discusses the study area and its environmental and geological settings, as well as the results from the landslide mapping activity. It describes the landslide susceptibility mapping developed for improving the landslide hazards in the Mackenzie. The qualitative parametric method used to develop a landslide susceptibility map was proven effective as very good preliminary results were obtained.
