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Arid Land Geography ›› 2026, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (9): 1788-1802.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2025.641

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Deformation monitoring and landslide susceptibility assessment method for the Gaizi River Valley of the China-Pakistan highway

WANG Yuanrong1(), HUO Jiuyuan1,2,3(), ZHANG Yaonan3   

  1. 1 School of Surveying and Geomatics, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou 730070, Gansu, China
    2 School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou 730070, Gansu, China
    3 National Cryosphere Desert Data Center, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, China
  • Received:2025-10-13 Revised:2025-11-29 Online:2026-09-25 Published:2026-09-07
  • Contact: HUO Jiuyuan E-mail:wyr20010404@163.com;huojy@mail.lzjtu.cn

Abstract:

Landslide susceptibility mapping (LSM) is a critical component of landslide hazard risk assessment. To address the limitations of existing models in multi-scale feature extraction, a hybrid feature extraction network, termed multi-scale attention depthwise separable convolution with a channel-prioritized Transformer network (MADTNet) was developed. This approach effectively captures both local and global landslide features, enabling more accurate LSM. The Gaizi River Valley section of the China-Pakistan highway was selected as the study area. To construct a comprehensive dataset for modeling landslide susceptibility, surface deformation data collected from January 2019 to June 2024 were retrieved using a small baseline subset interferometric synthetic aperture radar (SBAS-InSAR) technique and incorporated as a dynamic factor, along with ten static factors, including topography, geological conditions, hydrological characteristics, and human activities. The performance of MADTNet was systematically compared with that of five benchmark deep learning models convolutional neural network (CNN), residual network (ResNet), vision Transformer (ViT), fractal-based information Transformer (FrIT), and Transformer-based U-net (TransUNet). The results indicate that: (1) The line-of-sight deformation rates in the study area range from -52.5 mm·a-1 to 19.4 mm·a-1, while the slope-direction deformation rates range from -70.6 mm·a-1 to 25.7 mm·a-1. (2) MADTNet achieves the best overall performance, with an area-under-the-curve of 0.959, demonstrating superior predictive accuracy and generalization capability compared to the other models. (3) Shapley additive explanations (SHAP) analysis reveals that the distance to rivers, distance to roads, slope, and elevation difference are the dominant factors influencing landslide development. Overall, MADTNet achieves high-precision and interpretable landslide susceptibility predictions, offering robust scientific support for targeted landslide mitigation and disaster risk management.

Key words: Karakoram highway, InSAR, CNN, Transformer, landslide susceptibility evaluation, SHAP analysis