Brief Bio

My work focuses on developing open source landslide detection algorithms for producing multitemporal landslide inventories utilizing high-resolution imagery.

Publications

Refereed

Biswas, N. K., T. A. Stanley, D. B. Kirschbaum, et al. P. M. Amatya, C. Meechaiya, A. Poortinga, and P. Towashiraporn. 2022. "A dynamic landslide hazard monitoring framework for the Lower Mekong Region." Frontiers in Earth Science 10 [10.3389/feart.2022.1057796]

Dandridge, C., T. Stanley, D. Kirschbaum, P. Amatya, and V. Lakshmi. 2022. "The influence of land use and land cover change on landslide susceptibility in the Lower Mekong River Basin." Natural Hazards 115 1499–1523 [10.1007/s11069-022-05604-4]

Khan, S., D. B. Kirschbaum, T. A. Stanley, P. M. Amatya, and R. A. Emberson. 2022. "Global Landslide Forecasting System for Hazard Assessment and Situational Awareness." Frontiers in Earth Science 10 [10.3389/feart.2022.878996]

Emberson, R., D. B. Kirschbaum, P. Amatya, H. Tanyas, and O. Marc. 2022. "Insights from the topographic characteristics of a large global catalog of rainfall-induced landslide event inventories." Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 22 (3): 1129-1149 [10.5194/nhess-22-1129-2022]

Handwerger, A. L., M.-H. Huang, S. Y. Jones, et al. P. Amatya, H. R. Kerner, and D. B. Kirschbaum. 2022. "Generating landslide density heatmaps for rapid detection using open-access satellite radar data in Google Earth Engine." Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 22 (3): 753-773 [10.5194/nhess-22-753-2022]

Amatya, P., D. Kirschbaum, and T. Stanley. 2022. "Rainfall‐induced landslide inventories for Lower Mekong based on Planet imagery and a semi‐automatic mapping method." Geoscience Data Journal 9 (2): 315-327 [10.1002/gdj3.145]

Emberson, R., D. Kirschbaum, T. Stanley, P. Amatya, and S. Khan. 2021. "Satellites Support Disaster Response to Storm-Driven Landslides." Eos 102 [10.1029/2021eo161725]

Stanley, T. A., D. B. Kirschbaum, G. Benz, et al. R. A. Emberson, P. M. Amatya, W. Medwedeff, and M. K. Clark. 2021. "Data-Driven Landslide Nowcasting at the Global Scale." Frontiers in Earth Science 9 [10.3389/feart.2021.640043]

Amatya, P., D. Kirschbaum, T. Stanley, and H. Tanyas. 2021. "Landslide mapping using object-based image analysis and open source tools." Engineering Geology 282 106000 [10.1016/j.enggeo.2021.106000]

Zekkos, D., G. Zalachoris, A. E. Alvertos, et al. P. M. Amatya, P. Blunts, M. Clark, S. Dafis, I. Farmakis, A. Ganas, M. Hille, V. Kalimogiannis, A. Karagiannidis, E. Karantanellis, S. Khan, D. B. Kirschbaum, R. Kourkoulis, V. Kotroni, O.-J. Ktenidou, K. Lagouvardos, M. Loli, A. Makrinikas, V. Marinos, J. Manousakis, K. Nikas, D. Panousis, G. Papathanassiou, C. Saroglou, A. Simopoulos, T. Stanley, A. Tsavalas, and S. Valkaniotis. 2020. "The September 18-20 2020 Medicane Ianos Impact on Greece - Phase I Reconnaissance Report." Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance Report GEER-068 [10.18118/G6MT1T]

Amatya, P., D. Kirschbaum, and T. Stanley. 2019. "Use of Very High-Resolution Optical Data for Landslide Mapping and Susceptibility Analysis along the Karnali Highway, Nepal." Remote Sensing 11 (19): 2284 [10.3390/rs11192284]

Kirschbaum, D., C. S. Watson, D. R. Rounce, et al. D. H. Shugar, J. S. Kargel, U. K. Haritashya, P. Amatya, D. Shean, E. R. Anderson, and M. Jo. 2019. "The State of Remote Sensing Capabilities of Cascading Hazards Over High Mountain Asia." Frontiers in Earth Science 7 [10.3389/feart.2019.00197]