Acknowledgment

We thank Dr. K. V. Gururaja, Centre for Infrastructure, Sustainable Transport and Urban Planning (CiSTUP), Indian Institute of Science (IISc) for helping in the openModeller implementation and Karthick B. for helping in the  validation of the Kerala landslide prone areas. This research was carried out with the financial assistance from ISRO-IISc Space Technology Cell. The environmental layers were obtained from WorldClim - Global Climate Data.  NRSA, Hyderabad provided the LISS IV data used for land cover analysis.

We thank USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center for providing the environmental layers and Global Land Cover Facility (GLCF) for facilitating the Land Cover Change product.