Introduction: Monitoring, Prediction and Warning of Landslides

Abstract

The WLF3 B5.Session Monitoring, prediction and warning of landslides, as a part of WLF3 session Group B. Sessions for Methods of Landslide Studies, gathers the main elements in the landslides risk reduction and landslides sustainable disaster management: monitoring, prediction and warning of landslides. Sixteen contributions from eleven countries around the world have been submitted and, after review process, accepted for publishing. The best practice techniques and experiences on monitoring, prediction and warning of landslides caused by different triggering factors are presented in this Session. In this introduction to the WLF3 B5 Session Monitoring, prediction and warning of landslides, a short summary of each of the accepted papers is presented divided regarding to their general topics.

Remote Sensing for Landslide Investigations: An Overview of Recent Achievements and Perspectives

“…For example, multi-temporal landslide inventory mapping can be also seen as a monitoring application, according to the broad definition of "landslide monitoring" given in Delacourt et al [6]. Similarly, deformation measurement is going to be more and more strictly integrated into the modelling phase (data assimilation) and thus connected to hazard prediction, see [292]. If the application-driven classification was fully suitable in the first decades when remote sensing was applied to landslide studies, nowadays the authors suggest that the previous rationale should be revised.…”