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Book Synopsis Advancing Physically-based Landslide Prediction from Site-based to Regional Scale by Integrating High Resolution Remote Sensing Data by : Zonghu Liao
Download or read book Advancing Physically-based Landslide Prediction from Site-based to Regional Scale by Integrating High Resolution Remote Sensing Data written by Zonghu Liao and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Analysis of Spatial Data from Terrain Models for Landslide Predictive Mapping by : Rubini Santha
Download or read book Analysis of Spatial Data from Terrain Models for Landslide Predictive Mapping written by Rubini Santha and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landslides are a pervasive hazard that can result in substantial damage to properties and loss of life throughout the world. To understand the nature and scope of the hazard, landslide hazard mapping has been an area of intense research by identifying areas most susceptible to landslides in order to mitigate against these potential losses. Advanced GIS and remote sensing techniques are a fundamental component to both generate landslide inventories of previous landslides and identify landslide prone regions. A Digital Elevation Model (DEM) is one of the most critical data sources used in this GIS analysis to describe the topography. A DEM can be obtained from several remote sensing techniques, including satellite data and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR). While a DEM is commonly used for landslide hazard analysis, insufficient research has been completed on the influence of DEM source and resolution on the quality of landslide hazard mapping, particularly for high resolution DEMs such as those obtained by LiDAR. In addition to topography, multiple conditioning factors are often employed in landslide susceptibility mapping; however, the descriptive accuracy and contribution of the data representing these factors to the overall analysis is not fully understood or quantified. In many cases, the data available for these factors may be of insufficient quality, particularly at regional scales. These factors are often integrated into a wide assortment of analysis techniques, which can result in inconsistent mapping and hazard analysis. To this end, the principal objectives of this study are to 1) evaluate the influence of DEM source and spatial resolution in landslide predictive mapping, 2) asses the predictive accuracy of landslide susceptibility mapping produced from fewer critical conditioning factors derived solely from LiDAR data, 3) compare six widely used and representative landslide susceptibility mapping techniques to evaluate their consistency, 4) create a seismically-induced landslide hazard map for landside-prone Western Oregon, and 5) develop automated tools to generate landslide susceptibility maps in a regional scale. In this study, semi-qualitative, quantitative and hybrid mapping techniques were used to produce a series of landslide susceptibility maps using 10 m, 30 m and 50 m resolution datasets obtained from ASTER (Advance Space borne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer), NED (National Elevation Dataset) and LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging). The results were validated against detailed landslide inventory maps highlighting scarps and deposits derived by geologic experts from LiDAR DEMs. The output map produced from the LiDAR 10 m DEM was identified as the optimum spatial resolution and showed higher predictive accuracy for landslide susceptibility mapping. Higher resolution DEMs from LIDAR data was also investigated; however, they were not significantly improved over the 10 m DEM. Next, a series of landslide susceptibility maps were compared from six widely used statistical techniques using slope, slope roughness, elevation, terrain roughness, stream power index and compound topographic index derived from LiDAR DEM. The output maps were validated using both confusion matrix and area of curve methods. Statistically, the six output maps produced, showed accepTable prediction rate for landslide susceptibility. However, visual effects and limitations were noted that vary based on each technique. This study also showed that a single LiDAR DEM was capable of producing a satisfactory susceptibility map without additional data sources that may be difficult to obtain for large areas. In western Oregon, landslides are widespread and account for major direct and indirect losses on a frequent basis. A variety of factors lead to these landslides, which makes them difficult to analyze at a regional scale where detailed information is not available. For this study, a seismically-induced landslide hazard map was created using a multivariate, ordinary least squares approach. Various data sources, including combinations of topography (slope, aspect), lithology, vegetation indices (NDVI), mean annual precipitation, seismic sources (e.g., PGA, PGV, distance to nearest fault), and land use were rigorously evaluated to determine the relative contributions on each parameter on landslide potential in western Oregon. Results of the analysis showed that slope, PGA, PGV and precipitation were the strongest indicators of landslide susceptibility and other factors had minimal influence on the resulting map. An automated tool kit was a byproduct of this analysis which can be used to simply the hazard mapping process and selection of parameters to include in the analysis.
Book Synopsis Developing a Regional Scale Landslide Early Warning System in a Data-sparse Region Using Remote Sensing, Geostatistics, and Google Earth Engine by :
Download or read book Developing a Regional Scale Landslide Early Warning System in a Data-sparse Region Using Remote Sensing, Geostatistics, and Google Earth Engine written by and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract : The Landslide Early Warning System (LEWS) is a non-structural approach to mitigate landslide risk by alerting vulnerable communities at an early stage. This study aimed to develop a regional LEWS for rain-induced shallow landslides in Idukki, a mountainous district in India with sparse rainfall data. The landslide model consists of a rainfall component and a slope stability component. Satellite precipitation data can be used in data-sparse regions, but they must be calibrated because they tend to underestimate rainfall. To improve the accuracy of satellite data, this study used a geostatistics-based multi-criteria approach to identify optimal locations to install new rain gauges, thus enhancing the rain gauge network's monitoring capability. A rainfall threshold was developed for Idukki, accounting for intra-seasonal variations in rainfall patterns and extreme rainfall events. The slope stability component of the model is limited by the lack of high-resolution soil properties, which are time-consuming and impractical to acquire using conventional methods. To overcome this limitation, this research proposed developing empirical relationships between sub-surface resistivity and soil properties, providing a regional-scale high-resolution soil property dataset for slope susceptibility assessment. Finally, a cloud-based LEWS was developed using Google Earth Engine, combining the rainfall threshold and high-resolution slope stability models, with the advantage of readily available near real-time data, processing power, user accessibility, and the opportunity for future updates.
Book Synopsis Probabilistic Modeling of Shallow Landslides at Regional Scales by : Ronda L. Strauch
Download or read book Probabilistic Modeling of Shallow Landslides at Regional Scales written by Ronda L. Strauch and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mountainous areas are challenging to manage and maintain access due to their remoteness and steep topography. Shifting hydrologic regimes from changing climate are projected to intensify these challenges. Of particular concern are the effects and uncertainties from climate change on hillslope stability that may lead to increased landslides, which adds sediment to streams, elevates flooding, and impacts downstream natural and built resources. This dissertation aimed to improve mapping landslide hazard by integrating process-based and data-driven statistical models. To achieve this, we organized the dissertation into four chapters that begins with motivation and background (Chapter 1) and a climate change vulnerability assessment to access over a large regional area (Chapter 2). Chapter 3 describes a new probabilistic model of shallow landsliding based on a physical model that is coupled with a macro-scale hydrologic model and a soil evolution model explicitly addressing spatial and temporal uncertainty. This physical model is integrated with a statistical model relating observed landslides with local site factors predisposing a hillslope to fail to produce regional-scale landslide hazards from initiation, transportation, and deposition processes (Chapter 4). Concerns about hillslope stability were identified during one of the largest climate change adaptation efforts undertaken on federal lands. This effort included a transportation vulnerability assessment conducted with research scientists and federal land managers of two national parks and two national forests in north-central Washington, USA. During this assessment documented in Chapter 2, one of the top four infrastructure sensitivities recognized was increased damage associated with landslides from projected higher winter soil moisture caused by changes in seasonal precipitation and snow accumulation. Numerous strategies were identified to increase resistance and resilience of the transportation system to this impact pathway, including information needs such as “site-specific stability analysis based on soil and geologic information” and “identification of areas sensitive to high landslide frequency.” This dissertation takes on these information priorities by developing regional landslide models and demonstrates the models in one of the four jurisdictions: North Cascades National Park Complex (NOCA), Washington. Chapter 3 of the dissertation describes our development of a hydro-climatological approach to modeling of regional shallow landslide initiation that integrates spatial and temporal dimensions of parameter uncertainty. The physically-based model estimates annual probability of landslide initiation by solving the infinite slope stability equation coupled to steady-state topographic flow routing using a Monte Carlo approach. The uncertainty of soil depth often ignored in landslide hazard modeling is address by a soil development model, and subsurface flow recharge is obtained from the Variable Infiltration Capacity macro-scale hydrologic model. Thus, the model design allows for use of future hydrologic projections to estimate changing landslide probability as climate and landscape evolve. The model is available as a component in Landlab, an open-source, Python-based landscape earth systems modeling environment. It is designed to be easily reproduced and applied in various locations utilizing HydroShare cyberinfrastructure; therefore, it can be implemented in the other three federal jurisdictions and elsewhere. To better understand landslide transport and deposition impacts, we develop empirically-based probability hazard maps from a statistically-derived susceptibility index explained in Chapter 4 of this dissertation. This empirical model integrates the influence of seven site attributes on observed landslides, inventoried by NOCA park personnel, using a frequency ratio approach. The attributes assessed included: elevation, slope, curvature, aspect, land use-land cover, lithology, and topographic wetness index. The physically-based and empirically-based models were then combined to produce an integrated probabilistic map of landslide hazard for initiation, transport, and deposition processes. Thus, these maps identify locations of high and low probability of landslide impacts within the NOCA that can be used by land managers in their design, planning, and maintenance. Improved tools such as these with incorporated uncertainty can be used to reduce system vulnerabilities and lead to adaptations that allow continue use of natural areas with reduced risks.
Book Synopsis Landslide Analysis and Early Warning Systems by : Benni Thiebes
Download or read book Landslide Analysis and Early Warning Systems written by Benni Thiebes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent landslide events demonstrate the need to improve landslide forecasting and early warning capabilities in order to reduce related risks and protect human lives. In this thesis, local and regional investigations were carried out to analyse landslide characteristics in the Swabian Alb region, and to develop prototypic landslide early warning systems. In the local study area, an extensive hydrological and slope movement monitoring system was installed on a seasonally reactivated landslide body located in Lichtenstein- Unterhausen. Monitoring data was analysed to assess the influence of rainfall and snow-melt on groundwater conditions, and the initiation of slope movements. The coupled hydrology-slope stability model CHASM was applied to detect areas most prone to slope failures, and to simulate slope stability using a variety of input data. Subsequently, CHASM was refined and two web-based applications were developed: a technical early warning system to constantly simulate slope stability integrating rainfall measurements, hydrological monitoring data and weather forecasts; and a decision-support system allowing for quick calculation of stability for freely selectable slope profiles. On the regional scale, available landslide inventory data were analysed for their use in evaluation of rainfall thresholds proposed in other studies. Adequate landslide events were selected and their triggering rainfall and snow-melting conditions were compared to intensity-duration and cumulative thresholds. Based on the results, a regional landslide early warning system was developed and implemented as a webbased application. Both, the local and the regional landslide early warning systems are part of a holistic and integrative early warning chain developed by the ILEWS project, and could easily be transferred to other landslide prone areas.
Book Synopsis Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides by : Matjaz Mikos
Download or read book Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides written by Matjaz Mikos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-10 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Fourth World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL), University of Ljubljana (UL) and Geological Survey of Slovenia in Ljubljana, Slovenia from May 29 to June 2,. The complete collection of papers from the Forum is published in five full-color volumes. This second volume contains the following: • Two keynote lectures • Landslide Field Recognition and Identification: Remote Sensing Techniques, Field Techniques • Landslide Investigation: Field Investigations, Laboratory Testing • Landslide Modeling: Landslide Mechanics, Simulation Models • Landslide Hazard Risk Assessment and Prediction: Landslide Inventories and Susceptibility, Hazard Mapping Methods, Damage Potential Prof. Matjaž Mikoš is the Forum Chair of the Fourth World Landslide Forum. He is the Vice President of International Consortium on Landslides and President of the Slovenian National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction. Prof. Binod Tiwari is the Coordinator of the Volume 2 of the Fourth World Landslide Forum. He is a Board member of the International Consortium on Landslides and an Executive Editor of the International Journal “Landslides”. He is the Chair-Elect of the Engineering Division of the US Council of Undergraduate Research, Award Committee Chair of the American Society of Civil Engineering, Geo-Institute’s Committee on Embankments, Slopes, and Dams Committee. Prof. Yueping Yin is the President of the International Consortium on Landslides and the Chairman of the Committee of Geo-Hazards Prevention of China, and the Chief Geologist of Geo-Hazard Emergency Technology, Ministry of Land and Resources, P.R. China. Prof. Kyoji Sassa is the Founding President of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). He is Executive Director of ICL and the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal“Landslides” since its foundation in 2004. IPL (International Programme on Landslides) is a programme of the ICL. The programme is managed by the IPL Global Promotion Committee including ICL and ICL supporting organizations, UNESCO, WMO, FAO, UNISDR, UNU, ICSU, WFEO, IUGS and IUGG. The IPL contributes to the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction and the ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015–2025.
Book Synopsis Remote Sensing of Water-Related Hazards by : Ke Zhang
Download or read book Remote Sensing of Water-Related Hazards written by Ke Zhang and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applications of remote sensing technology for monitoring and predicting water-related hazards Water-related hazards such as floods and droughts have serious impacts on society. Their incidence has increased in recent decades, a trend set to continue with ongoing climate change. Adaptation and mitigation measures require accurate detection, monitoring, and forecasting, much of which comes from remote sensing technologies. Remote Sensing of Water-Related Hazards takes an interdisciplinary approach, presenting recent advances in the available data, sensors, models, and indicators developed for monitoring and prediction. Volume highlights include: Progress in remote sensing of precipitation, storms, and tornados Different techniques for flood mapping, forecasting, and early warning Integrated approach for predicting flood and landslide cascading hazards Satellite monitoring of water cycle variation, water scarcity, and drought conditions Multi-indicator and multi-sensor approaches for quantifying drought impacts The American Geophysical Union promotes discovery in Earth and space science for the benefit of humanity. Its publications disseminate scientific knowledge and provide resources for researchers, students, and professionals.
Book Synopsis Modern Technologies for Landslide Monitoring and Prediction by : Marco Scaioni
Download or read book Modern Technologies for Landslide Monitoring and Prediction written by Marco Scaioni and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-23 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Technologies for Landslide Investigation and Prediction presents eleven contributed chapters from Chinese and Italian authors, as a follow-up of a bilateral workshop held in Shanghai on September 2013. Chapters are organized in three main parts: ground-based monitoring techniques (photogrammetry, terrestrial laser scanning, ground-based InSAR, infrared thermography, and GNSS networks), geophysical (passive seismic sensor networks) and geotechnical methods (SPH and SLIDE), and satellite remote-sensing techniques (InSAR and optical images). Authors of these contributes are internationally-recognized experts in their respective research fields. Marco Scaioni works in the college of Surveying and Geo-Informatics at Tongji University, Shanghai (P.R. China). His research fields are mainly Close-range Photogrammetry, Terrestrial Laser Scanning, and other ground-based sensors for metrological and deformation monitoring applications to structural engineering and geosciences. In the period 2012-2016 he is chairman of the Working Group V/3 in the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, focusing on ‘Terrestrial 3D Imaging and Sensors’.
Book Synopsis GIS Landslide by : Hiromitsu Yamagishi
Download or read book GIS Landslide written by Hiromitsu Yamagishi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents landslide studies using the geographic information system (GIS), which includes not only the science of GIS and remote sensing, but also technical innovations, such as detailed light detection and ranging profiles, among others. To date most of the research on landslides has been found in journals on topography, geology, geo-technology, landslides, and GIS, and is limited to specific scientific aspects. Although journal articles on GIS using landslide studies are abundant, there are very few books on this topic. This book is designed to fill that gap and show how the latest GIS technology can contribute in terms of landslide studies. In a related development, the GIS Landslide Workshop was established in Japan 7 years ago in order to communicate and solve the scientific as well as technical problems of GIS analyses, such as how to use GIS software and its functions. The workshop has significantly contributed to progress in the field. Included among the chapters of this book are GIS using susceptibility mapping, analyses of deep-seated and shallow landslides, measuring and visualization of landslide distribution in relation to topography, geological facies and structures, rivers, land use, and infrastructures such as roads and streets. Filled with photographs, figures, and tables, this book is of great value to researchers in the fields of geography, geology, seismology, environment, remote sensing, and atmospheric research, as well as to students in these fields.
Book Synopsis Landslides: Detection, Prediction and Monitoring by : P. Thambidurai
Download or read book Landslides: Detection, Prediction and Monitoring written by P. Thambidurai and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book intends to decipher the knowledge in the advancement of understanding, detecting, predicting, and monitoring landslides. The number of massive landslides and the damages they cause has increased across the globe in recent times. It is one of the most devastating natural hazards that cause widespread damage to habitat on a local, regional, and global scale. International experts provide their experience in landslide research and practice to help stakeholders mitigate and predict potential landslides. The book comprises chapters on: Dynamics, mechanisms, and processes of landslides; Geological, geotechnical, hydrological, and geophysical modelling for landslides; Mapping and assessment of hazard, vulnerability, and risk associated with landslides; Monitoring and early warning of landslides; Application of remote sensing and GIS techniques in monitoring and assessment of landslides. The book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, and decision-makers in adapting suitable modern techniques for landslide study.
Book Synopsis Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides by : Matjaž Mikoš
Download or read book Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides written by Matjaž Mikoš and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Fourth World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL), University of Ljubljana (UL) and Geological Survey of Slovenia in Ljubljana, Slovenia from May 29 to June 2, 2017. The complete collection of papers from the Forum is published in five full-color volumes. This third volume contains the following: • One keynote lecture • Landslide Monitoring and Warning: Monitoring Techniques and Technologies, • Early Warning Systems • Landslide Disasters and Relief: Case Studies, Emergency Measures, First Aid, • Civil Protection Measures • Landslide Mitigation, Remediation and Stabilization: Landslide Protection Works, • Landslide Stabilization And Remediation Measures, Landslide Non-Structural Measures Prof. Matjaž Mikoš is the Forum Chair of the Fourth World Landslide Forum. He is the Vice President of International Consortium on Landslides and President of the Slovenian National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction. Prof. Željko Arbanas is representative of Croatian Landslide Group, member of the International Consortium on Landslides. He is the Head of Geotechnical Chair at Faculty of Civil Engineering University of Rijeka, Croatia and the Assistant Editor-in-Chief of International Journal “Landslides”.“/p> Prof. Yueping Yin is the President of the International Consortium on Landslides and the Chairman of the Committee of Geo-Hazards Prevention of China, and the Chief Geologist of Geo-Hazard Emergency Technology, Ministry of Land and Resources, P.R. China. Prof. Kyoji Sassa is the Founding President of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). He is Executive Director of ICL and the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal “Landslides” since its foundation in 2004. IPL (International Programme on Landslides) is a programme of the ICL. The programme is managed by the IPL Global Promotion Committee including ICL and ICL supporting organizations, UNESCO, WMO, FAO, UNISDR, UNU, ICSU, WFEO, IUGS and IUGG. The IPL contributes to the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction and the ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015–2025.
Book Synopsis Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 3 Issue 1, 2024 by : Biljana Abolmasov
Download or read book Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 3 Issue 1, 2024 written by Biljana Abolmasov and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Laser Scanning Applications in Landslide Assessment by : Biswajeet Pradhan
Download or read book Laser Scanning Applications in Landslide Assessment written by Biswajeet Pradhan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is related to various applications of laser scanning in landslide assessment. Landslide detection approaches, susceptibility, hazard, vulnerability assessment and various modeling techniques are presented. Optimization of landslide conditioning parameters and use of heuristic, statistical, data mining approaches, their advantages and their relationship with landslide risk assessment are discussed in detail. The book contains scanning data in tropical forests; its indicators, assessment, modeling and implementation. Additionally, debris flow modeling and analysis including source of debris flow identification and rockfall hazard assessment are also presented.
Book Synopsis Intelligent Interpretation for Geological Disasters by : Weitao Chen
Download or read book Intelligent Interpretation for Geological Disasters written by Weitao Chen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2023-10-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprehensively utilizes the new generation of artificial intelligence and remote sensing science and technology to systematically carry out researches on high-precision recognition, monitoring, analysis, and assessment of geological disasters by using different technologies of "ground, airspace, and space-based systems" and different scales of "target-semantic-region". The main contents include: 1) Intelligent interpretation theory and methods of geological disasters, 2) Intelligent analysis of landslide based on long-term ground monitoring data, 3) Deep learning-based remote sensing detection of landslide, 4) Intelligent analysis of landslide evolution based on optical satellite remote sensing data, 5) Intelligent assessment methods of landslide susceptibility, 6) Intelligent recognition of ground figure based on airspace-based remote sensing data, 7) Intelligent monitoring of land subsidence in mining areas based on InSAR technology. The book is of interest to graduate student, scientific, and technological personnel who work in the area of geological disasters, natural hazards, remote sensing, and artificial intelligence.
Book Synopsis Geographic Information Systems for Geoscientists by : Graeme F. Bonham-Carter
Download or read book Geographic Information Systems for Geoscientists written by Graeme F. Bonham-Carter and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-18 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geographic Information Systems for Geoscientists: Modelling with GIS provides an introduction to the ideas and practice of GIS to students and professionals from a variety of geoscience backgrounds. The emphasis in the book is to show how spatial data from various sources (principally paper maps, digital images and tabular data from point samples) can be captured in a GIS database, manipulated, and transformed to extract particular features in the data, and combined together to produce new derived maps, that are useful for decision-making and for understanding spatial interrelationship. The book begins by defining the meaning, purpose, and functions of GIS. It then illustrates a typical GIS application. Subsequent chapters discuss methods for organizing spatial data in a GIS; data input and data visualization; transformation of spatial data from one data structure to another; and the combination, analysis, and modeling of maps in both raster and vector formats. This book is intended as both a textbook for a course on GIS, and also for those professional geoscientists who wish to understand something about the subject. Readers with a mathematical bent will get more out of the later chapters, but relatively non-numerate individuals will understand the general purpose and approach, and will be able to apply methods of map modeling to clearly-defined problems.
Book Synopsis Landslide Dynamics: ISDR-ICL Landslide Interactive Teaching Tools by : Kyoji Sassa
Download or read book Landslide Dynamics: ISDR-ICL Landslide Interactive Teaching Tools written by Kyoji Sassa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-27 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interactive book presents comprehensive information on the fundamentals of landslide types and dynamics, while also providing a set of PPT, PDF, and text tools for education and capacity development. As the core activity of the Sendai Partnerships, the International Consortium of Landslides has created this two-volume work, which will be regularly updated and improved over the coming years, based on responses from users and lessons learned during its application.
Book Synopsis Regional-scale Coseismic Landslide Hazard Modeling and Consequence Analysis by : alex grant
Download or read book Regional-scale Coseismic Landslide Hazard Modeling and Consequence Analysis written by alex grant and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthquake-induced, or coseismic, landslides occur in great number during moderate to large (>M5) earthquakes. These landslides typically occur across regions spanning hundreds to thousands of square kilometers. The widespread geographic distribution of coseismic landslides makes them, by definition, regional-scale events. Current regional-scale landslide hazard analyses are typically based solely on the analysis of shallow translational landslides, neglecting many mechanistically-diverse types of landslides triggered by earthquakes that have historically driven coseismic-losses. Existing landslide hazard models are then difficult to translate into coseismic landslide risk, the likelihood of loss of life or property due to such a landslide, as the modeled landslide is not representative of many observed landslides, and virtually no quantitative data on the consequences and vulnerability of structures are available for landslides. Here a new multi-modal framework for coseismic landslide hazard analysis is presented. Coseismic landslide hazard is developed from multiple, distinct, types of landslides to explicitly account for differences in failure mechanism, susceptible terrain, and consequences of each landslide. This work improves regional-scale coseismic landslide hazard and consequence analyses by developing mode-based hazard analyses to explicitly account for mechanistic differences in coseismic landslides and developing unique mode-specific landslide consequence data. These advances in modeling and knowledge of coseismic landslide consequences, paired with an assessment of the effect of anthropogenic modification on landslide susceptibility, provide a greatly improved framework in which coseismic landslide risk can be quantitatively assessed. Improved quantitative risk analyses will better enable mitigation strategies and decisions to be made to protect individuals, communities, and the built environment from future coseismic landslide losses. The multi-modal framework was developed to compute coseismic landslide hazard for Lebanon considering four landslide modes with unique source regions, failure mechanisms, and implications to human and economic risk. Coseismic landslide hazard was computed for 10% in 50-year probabilistic seismic hazard peak ground accelerations, as well as historic scenario earthquakes, to assess the model’s ability to match field observations of historic landslide activity and mapped coseismic landslides. High-quality empirical data on the physical consequences of coseismic rock impacts to residential dwellings is presented from the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquake sequence. These quantitative measures of rock impacts are a critical missing piece in the analysis of quantitative risk assessment, and provide a foundation for life-safety decision-making anywhere residential homes are exposed to falling rock. Landslides triggered by the 2011 M9.0 Tohoku, Japan earthquake were mapped and analyzed to assess the role of topographic, climatic, anthropogenic, and ground motion parameters in the initiation of different landslide failure modes as well as the consequences to the built environment caused by each landslide type. A physically-based framework, based on a common simplified landslide initiation model, was found to describe the observed concentrations of landslides triggered by the Tohoku earthquake, whereas commonly-held explanatory metrics such as peak ground acceleration did not. Anthropogenic modification was found to significantly alter expected material strengths, and landslide susceptibility to failure, for debris slides triggered by the Tohoku earthquake. 42% of all Tohoku-triggered landslides impacted the built environment, destroying roadways and structures, and causing significant economic losses. 67% of all Tohoku-triggered landslides occurred in anthropogenically modified hillslopes. These data suggest many of the risks associated with large magnitude subduction zone earthquake-induced landslides may be of our own design, threatening many aggressively developed regions with decreased slope resistance to landslides and increased potential for loss. Probabilistic coseismic landslide hazard analyses are presented for Seattle, Washington based on a suite of 30 synthetic M9.0 Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquakes, the 2001 M6.8 Nisqually earthquake, and a scenario M7.0 synthetic Seattle Fault earthquake. A simplified 475-year return period probabilistic coseismic landslide hazard analysis, combining multiple sources of seismicity, was then developed for Seattle. The multi-modal coseismic landslide hazard analysis, combined with probabilistic estimates of material strength and ground shaking and empirical ground saturation data, is presented as a state-of-the-art regional-scale coseismic landslide hazard analysis, and as a basis for future analyses assessing Cascadia Subduction Zone coseismic landslide hazard across the Pacific Northwest.
