SOSlope - Local scale, shallow landslide disposition modelling tool

SOSlope (courtesy of M. Schwarz) is a hydro-mechanical model of slope stability that computes the factor of safety on a hillslope discretized into a two-dimensional array of blocks connected by bonds. Bonds between adjacent blocks represent mechanical forces acting across the blocks due to roots and soil (cf. Cohen and Schwarz, 2017).

The main calculations carried out by SOSlope are:

• the displacement in meters of each cell of the input terrain model
• the factor of safety of each cell
• the location, the number of failed cells, the area and the volume of each landslide
• the mobilised root reinforcement under tension and compression

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