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Zhu et al. / J Zhejiang Univ SCIENCE A 2006 7(12):2007-2017 2007 Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE A ISSN 1009-3095 (Print); ISSN 1862-1775 (Online) /jzus; E-mail: jzus@ GIS-based logistic regression method for landslide susceptibility * mapping in regional scale ZHU Lei1,3, HUANG Jing-feng†‡2 1 ( Department of Natural Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310029, China) (2Institute of Agricultural Remote Sensing and Information Technology Application, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310029, China) (3Shandong Agriculture Administrators College, Jinan 250100, China) †E-mail: hjf@ Received Mar. 20, 2006; revision accepted Sept. 21, 2006 Abstract: Landslide susceptibility map is one of the study fields portraying the spatial distribution of future slope failure sus- ceptibility. This paper deals with past methods for producing landslide susceptibility map and divides these methods into 3 types. The logistic linear regression approach is further elaborated on by crosstabs method, which is used to analyze the relationship between the categorical or binary response variable and one or more continuous or categorical or binary explanatory variables derived from samples. It is an objective assignment of coefficients serving as weights of various factors under considerations while expert opinions make great difference in heuristic approac