Abstract
It is desirable to know the location of landslide susceptible areas in order to avoid landslide disasters. However it is very difficult to find such places especially if they are concerning to primarily landslides. For this reason, topographical and geological features over the areas to investigate have been using to find out that kind of areas. In this paper, topographical “fractal” characteristics of landslides are discussed on the view of the tool for investigation of landslide susceptible areas. The “Fractal” is a mathematical theory that has debeloped by B. Mandelbrot in order to describe the quality of complex shapes or images in the nature. And, it is suitable to measure landslides complex topography. Here in this paper, Fractal Dimension of landslides “D” are discussed as a index factor for landslide susceptibility, and some example of D are also given. Finally, it has come to be clear that “D” can be an index for landslide susceptibility.
