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The 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake (Mw 6.6) and its aftershocks not only caused major damage with severe loss of life and property but also induced many landslides across the area. To gain a better understanding of the landslides induced by this earthquake, we proposed a method of landslide mapping using pre- and post-event Advanced Land Observation Satellite 2 Phased Array L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar 2 (ALOS-2 PALSAR-2) images acquired from both descending and ascending orbits. Moreover, the accuracy of the classification results was verified by comparisons with high-resolution optical images, and ground truth data (provided by GSI, Japan). The detected landslides show a good match with the reference optical images by visual comparison. The quantitative comparison results showed that a combination of the descending and ascending intensity-based landslide classification had the best accuracy with an overall accuracy and kappa coefficient of 80.1% and 0.45, respectively.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11202351","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,10,11]],"date-time":"2019-10-11T03:07:11Z","timestamp":1570763231000},"page":"2351","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":48,"title":["Earthquake-Induced Landslide Mapping for the 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi Earthquake Using PALSAR-2 Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4848-5399","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yusupujiang","family":"Aimaiti","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0655-4114","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wen","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3285-5997","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fumio","family":"Yamazaki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0006, Japan"}]},{"given":"Yoshihisa","family":"Maruyama","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,10,10]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"121","DOI":"10.1016\/j.geomorph.2017.01.030","article-title":"The size, distribution, and mobility of landslides caused by the 2015 Mw7.8 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal","volume":"301","author":"Roback","year":"2018","journal-title":"Geomorphology"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"4870","DOI":"10.3390\/rs6064870","article-title":"Rapid damage assessment by means of multi-temporal SAR\u2014A comprehensive review and outlook to Sentinel-1","volume":"6","author":"Plank","year":"2014","journal-title":"Remote Sens."},{"key":"ref_3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"299","DOI":"10.5194\/nhess-13-299-2013","article-title":"Technical Note: Use of remote sensing for landslide studies in Europe","volume":"13","author":"Tofani","year":"2013","journal-title":"Nat. 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