Landslide Databases in Europe: Analysis and Recommendations for Interoperability and Harmonisation

Landslide inventories, usually including digital inventory maps and linked alphanumeric attributes, are the most important input for further landslide zoning. However, to allow landslide susceptibility, hazard and risk assessment the inventory databases should contain information on the location of landslide phenomena, types, history, state of activity, magnitude or size, causal factors and the damage caused. Yet, in Europe it is not known which national (or regional) landslide databases contain all this information, and thus allow landslide risk assessment. Therefore this study presents a review of existing national landslide databases in Europe together with a number of regional databases, and proposes improvements in agreement with the EU Soil Thematic Strategy, and with INSPIRE Directive.