Evaluation of Landslide Susceptibility Based on SVM with GWO Algorithm

Since landslide is one of the most universal natural disasters in China, the study of regional landslide susceptibility evaluation is important to protect people's lives and property. This paper analyzes the geospatial characteristics of the Zigui-Badong section in the Three Gorges. By Pearson correlation analysis methodselects, nine impact factors of landslide susceptibility are extracted from the aspects of topography and geomorphology, geological environment, and hydrological conditions, used to establish the evaluation index system of landslide susceptibility. On the above data basis, the paper applies a support vector machine (SVM) model and an SVM model for gray wolf optimization (GWO) to the susceptibility evaluation of landslides, and product landslide susceptibility index maps according to the results. The research area is divided into four regions by jenks method on the map: high-risk, medium-risk, low-risk, and very low-risk areas. Applying the accuracy, confusion matrix, and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve to evaluate the model, The prediction accuracy of the GWO-SVM model and the SVM model is 88.55 % and 82.82 % respectively, the comparison proves that the GWO-SVM model is much more accurate, which can provide a reference for the study of regional landslide susceptibility.