Electronic Data Collection for Rockfall Analysis

Bellamy, Derrick LaDon; Bateman, Vanessa; Drumm, Eric C.; Dunne, William M.; Vandewater, Christopher J.; Mauldon, Matthew; Rose, Brett

doi:10.3141/1821-12

Cited by 7 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 3 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…An important innovation is that they have developed a protocol to use a mobile Palm Pilot platform for field-based input and analysis (Bellamy et al, 2003).…”

Section: Tennessee Rockfall Hazard Rating Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

New Risk-Consequence Rockfall Hazard Rating System for Missouri Highways Using Digital Image Analysis

Maerz

Youssef

Fennessey

2005

Environmental and Engineering Geoscience

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The Missouri Rockfall Hazard Rating System (MORFH RS) is a new scheme for rating rockfall hazards along the roads of the Missouri State highway system. Existing rating systems used in other jurisdictions focus on the risk of failure and ignore the consequence of failure, or they lump the ratings for risk and consequence together. Missouri highway rock cuts tend to have low heights but are typically highly weathered, with special problems from karst and paleokarst. In MORFH RS, risk and consequence factors are given equal weight but isolated from each other. MORFH RS utilizes two phases: 1) identification of the most potentially problematic rock cuts using mobile digital video logging; 2) characterization and prioritization of remediation for the potentially problematic rock cuts identified in phase 1, using MORFH RS. In phase 2 four types of parameters are evaluated: 1) parameters that can be measured on computer scaled video images; 2) parameters which are descriptive, and need field evaluation; 3) parameters which are obtained from MODOT records; 4) conditional parameters which are evaluated under specific conditions. Only those parameters were selected that were deemed meaningful and/or relatively easy to measure or estimate. Parameters were assigned to either a risk or consequence category or both. MORFH RS has been tested on sections of Missouri highways. About 300 rock cuts were evaluated and used to prepare, modify, test, and verify the system. Sensitivity analysis of the system was done by quantifying potential errors in the video measurements and by a rating comparison of 12 MODOT and University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR) personnel on 10 rock cuts along Highway 63.

show abstract

“…An important innovation is that they have developed a protocol to use a mobile Palm Pilot platform for field-based input and analysis (Bellamy et al, 2003).…”

Section: Tennessee Rockfall Hazard Rating Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

New Risk-Consequence Rockfall Hazard Rating System for Missouri Highways Using Digital Image Analysis

Maerz

Youssef

Fennessey

2005

Environmental and Engineering Geoscience

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Over the last two decades, several qualitative risk rating systems (QRSs) have been proposed in order to reduce the potential consequences of rockfalls, and information technology systems (involving the use of electronic data sets, video images, lidar-based technologies, and GIS) have been implemented by several authors and transportation agencies in the USA, Canada, Australia and elsewhere (Pierson et al, 1990;Franklin and Senior, 1997;Bateman, 2003;Rose, 2005;Drumm et al, 2005;Liang et al, 2006;Pack et al, 2007;Youssef and Maerz, 2012;Russell et al, 2008;Mekni et al, 2008;Ferrero et al, 2011;Lato et al, 2012;Mignelli et al, 2012).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparison between qualitative rockfall risk rating systems for a road affected by high traffic intensity

Budetta

Nappi

2013

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The paper deals with the assessment of the rockfall risk for a road stretch, in southern Italy, affected by high traffic intensity. Three qualitative rockfall risk rating systems (QRSs) which use an exponential scoring with a base of 3 were employed, and then the results were compared. The used methods are the following: the Rockfall Hazard Rating System, a modified version of this method already proposed in the past by one of the authors, and the modified version of the Colorado Rockfall Hazard Rating System. The studied road stretch is about 11 km in length and is part of a very tortuous road flanked by rock slopes characterised by complex geostructural and geomechanical layouts. The road was subdivided into 56 sections, defined so as to have – as much as possible – homogeneous geological characteristics. By means of the three QRSs, it was possible to ascertain that high levels of rockfall risks are due to the lack of ditches, a very limited percentage of decision sight distance (PDSD) values and a small roadway width, whereas a subordinate factor is the hazard caused by rockfalls. Several positive and negative aspects arising from the use of the employed methods are highlighted and discussed

show abstract

Slope Stability Hazard Assessment Using 3D Remote Sensing and Field Sketching Techniques Along Sohag-Red Sea-Cairo Highway, Egypt

El-Haddad

Youssef

El-Shater

et al. 2017

Advancing Culture of Living With Landslides

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Electronic Data Collection for Rockfall Analysis

Cited by 7 publications

References 3 publications

New Risk-Consequence Rockfall Hazard Rating System for Missouri Highways Using Digital Image Analysis

New Risk-Consequence Rockfall Hazard Rating System for Missouri Highways Using Digital Image Analysis

Comparison between qualitative rockfall risk rating systems for a road affected by high traffic intensity

Slope Stability Hazard Assessment Using 3D Remote Sensing and Field Sketching Techniques Along Sohag-Red Sea-Cairo Highway, Egypt

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About