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Article

Landslides Triggered by Medicane Ianos in Greece, September 2020: Rapid Satellite Mapping and Field Survey

by
Sotiris Valkaniotis
1,*,
George Papathanassiou
2,
Vassilis Marinos
3,
Charalampos Saroglou
3,
Dimitrios Zekkos
4,
Vasileios Kallimogiannis
3,
Efstratios Karantanellis
5,
Ioannis Farmakis
6,
Georgios Zalachoris
7,
John Manousakis
8 and
Olga-Joan Ktenidou
9
1
Department of Civil Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, 67100 Xanthi, Greece
2
Department of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
3
School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 10682 Athens, Greece
4
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
5
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
6
Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
7
Omikron Kappa Consulting S.A., 15122 Athens, Greece
8
Elxis Group, 10682 Athens, Greece
9
Geodynamic Institute, National Observatory of Athens, 11810 Athens, Greece
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(23), 12443; https://doi.org/10.3390/app122312443
Submission received: 19 July 2022 / Revised: 1 December 2022 / Accepted: 2 December 2022 / Published: 5 December 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mapping, Monitoring and Assessing Disasters)
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Abstract

Medicanes, a type of strong hurricanes/cyclones occurring in the Mediterranean, can be the source of major geohazard events in Mediterranean coastal and inland areas. Medicane Ianos that hit Greece during 17–19 September 2020 caused widespread damage, with numerous landsides and floods being the most prominent. Following the landfall of Medicane Ianos, a series of field surveys were launched together with rapid response through satellite imagery. We focused on two of the areas most affected by Medicane Ianos, Cephalonia island and Karditsa, Thessaly, both in Greece. A rapid landslide inventory for the Karditsa region was prepared using Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite imagery, the first of its kind for a severe weather event in Greece. The mountainous area of Karditsa region in western Thessaly experienced the unprecedented number of 1696 landslides, mapped through satellite imagery and examined in the field. Cephalonia Island experienced a smaller number of landsides but damaging debris flows and severe structural damages. The rapid landside inventory was then compared to new methods of automated landslide mapping through change detection of satellite imagery.
Keywords: landslides; landslide inventory; rapid mapping; remote sensing; Sentinel-2; Ianos; Medicane; Greece landslides; landslide inventory; rapid mapping; remote sensing; Sentinel-2; Ianos; Medicane; Greece

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Valkaniotis, S.; Papathanassiou, G.; Marinos, V.; Saroglou, C.; Zekkos, D.; Kallimogiannis, V.; Karantanellis, E.; Farmakis, I.; Zalachoris, G.; Manousakis, J.; et al. Landslides Triggered by Medicane Ianos in Greece, September 2020: Rapid Satellite Mapping and Field Survey. Appl. Sci. 2022, 12, 12443. https://doi.org/10.3390/app122312443

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Valkaniotis S, Papathanassiou G, Marinos V, Saroglou C, Zekkos D, Kallimogiannis V, Karantanellis E, Farmakis I, Zalachoris G, Manousakis J, et al. Landslides Triggered by Medicane Ianos in Greece, September 2020: Rapid Satellite Mapping and Field Survey. Applied Sciences. 2022; 12(23):12443. https://doi.org/10.3390/app122312443

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Valkaniotis, Sotiris, George Papathanassiou, Vassilis Marinos, Charalampos Saroglou, Dimitrios Zekkos, Vasileios Kallimogiannis, Efstratios Karantanellis, Ioannis Farmakis, Georgios Zalachoris, John Manousakis, and et al. 2022. "Landslides Triggered by Medicane Ianos in Greece, September 2020: Rapid Satellite Mapping and Field Survey" Applied Sciences 12, no. 23: 12443. https://doi.org/10.3390/app122312443

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Valkaniotis, S., Papathanassiou, G., Marinos, V., Saroglou, C., Zekkos, D., Kallimogiannis, V., Karantanellis, E., Farmakis, I., Zalachoris, G., Manousakis, J., & Ktenidou, O.-J. (2022). Landslides Triggered by Medicane Ianos in Greece, September 2020: Rapid Satellite Mapping and Field Survey. Applied Sciences, 12(23), 12443. https://doi.org/10.3390/app122312443

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