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The landslides are manually mapped from a visual interpretation of satellite images and are mainly triggered by the second rainfall episode (16\u201317 May 2023); the inventory is entirely original, and the mapping is supplemented with field surveys at a few selected locations. The main goal of this paper is to present the dataset and to investigate the landslide distribution with respect to triggering (precipitation) and predisposing (land use, lithology, slope and distance from roads) factors using a statistical approach. The landslides occurred more frequently on steeper slopes and for the land use categories of \u201cbare rocks and badlands\u201d and woodlands. A weaker positive correlation is found for the lithological classes: silty and flysch-like units are more prone to host slope movements. The inventory presented here provides a comprehensive picture of the slope movements triggered in the study area and represents one of the most numerous rainfall-induced landslide inventories on a global scale. We claim that the inventory can support the validation of automatic products and that our results on triggering and predisposing factors can be used for modeling landslide susceptibility and more broadly for hazard purposes.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs16010122","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,12,27]],"date-time":"2023-12-27T10:23:54Z","timestamp":1703672634000},"page":"122","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":27,"title":["Rapid Mapping of Landslides Induced by Heavy Rainfall in the Emilia-Romagna (Italy) Region in May 2023"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6755-2331","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Maria Francesca","family":"Ferrario","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Science and High Technology, Universit\u00e0 degli Studi dell\u2019Insubria, Via Valleggio, 11, 22100 Como, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6684-7779","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Franz","family":"Livio","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Science and High Technology, Universit\u00e0 degli Studi dell\u2019Insubria, Via Valleggio, 11, 22100 Como, Italy"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,12,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Turner, A.K., and Schuster, R.L. 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