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Landslides Early Warning Technology

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Earth Sciences".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2020) | Viewed by 8803

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Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM)
Interests: landslide early warning; landslide monitoring; landslide prediction model; unsaturated soil mechanics; countermeasure of slope failure

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Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, the occurrence frequency and intensity of extreme rainfall and severe earthquakes have increased as a result of climate change. This effect can change not only the occurrence pattern of landslide but also the frequency and scale of landslide. As the construction works in mountainous areas have been enlarged due to the expansion of urban areas with increasing population, the damage of lives and properties has rapidly increased. In particular, the landslides that occur in the city cause the most severe damage. To reduce the damage induced by landslides, a landslide early warning system which can provide reliable and accurate information should be established.

The main topic of this Special Issue is related to the cutting-edge technologies involved with providing early warnings for landslides. Many researchers have developed and suggested different landslide early warning tools based on various prediction methods. The data-driven method has been a preferable approach that generates statistical, probabilistic, or machine learning models on the basis of a lot of historical landslide data. Also, numerous studies have proposed physically-based approaches with the advanced computational techniques based on analytical and numerical explanations for the mechanism of landslide occurrences. Meanwhile, the advanced monitoring approach that uses either contact-sensing techniques with ground instrumentations or remote-sensing techniques such as LiDAR, GB-InSAR, digital photogrammetry, and so on is another vital research field of landslide early warnings.

The primary objective of this Special Issue is to showcase the advanced landslide early warning technologies used to minimize and reduce the damages and to introduce the landslide early warning system in each country. The research articles related to landslide early warning that explore the topic from various fields are welcome.

Dr. Young-Suk Song
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • landslide
  • early warning technology
  • monitoring technology
  • prediction model
  • issue criteria
  • rainfall
  • earthquake

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A Regional-Scale Landslide Early Warning System Based on the Sequential Evaluation Method: Development and Performance Analysis
by Joon-Young Park, Seung-Rae Lee, Yun-Tae Kim, Sinhang Kang and Deuk-Hwan Lee
Appl. Sci. 2020, 10(17), 5788; https://doi.org/10.3390/app10175788 - 21 Aug 2020
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A regional-scale landslide early warning system was developed in collaboration with a city government. The structure and distinctive features of the system are described in detail. This system employs the principles of the sequential evaluation method that consecutively applies three different evaluation stages: [...] Read more.
A regional-scale landslide early warning system was developed in collaboration with a city government. The structure and distinctive features of the system are described in detail. This system employs the principles of the sequential evaluation method that consecutively applies three different evaluation stages: statistical, physically based, and geomorphological evaluations. Based on this method, the system determines five phases of warning levels with improved levels of certainty and credibility. In particular, the warning levels are systematically derived to enable the discrimination of slope failures and debris flows. To provide intuitive and pragmatic information regarding the warning capabilities of the system, a comprehensive performance analysis was conducted. Early warning level maps were generated and a historical landslide database was established for the study period from 2009 to 2016. As a result, 81% of historical slope failures and 86% of historical debris flows were correctly predicted by high-class warning levels. Miscellaneous details associated to the timing efficiency of warnings were also investigated. Most notably, five high-class warning level events and four landslide events were recorded for a study region during the eight-year period. The four landslide events were all successfully captured by four out of the five warning events. Full article
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Towards Automatic Landslide-Quake Identification Using a Random Forest Classifier
by Guan-Wei Lin, Ching Hung, Yi-Feng Chang Chien, Chung-Ray Chu, Che-Hsin Liu, Chih-Hsin Chang and Hongey Chen
Appl. Sci. 2020, 10(11), 3670; https://doi.org/10.3390/app10113670 - 26 May 2020
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Landslide-generated seismic waves (landslide-quakes), exhibiting distinctive waveforms and frequency characteristics, can be recorded by nearby seismometers. Implementing an automatic classifier for landslide-quakes could help provide objective and accurate initiation times of landslides with efficiency. This study collected and analyzed the time information of [...] Read more.
Landslide-generated seismic waves (landslide-quakes), exhibiting distinctive waveforms and frequency characteristics, can be recorded by nearby seismometers. Implementing an automatic classifier for landslide-quakes could help provide objective and accurate initiation times of landslides with efficiency. This study collected and analyzed the time information of 214 landslide seismic records due to 33 documented landslide events, from the Broadband Array in Taiwan for Seismology (BATS). In addition, equal numbers of earthquake and noise signals were also incorporated. The 642 seismic signals and time information were carefully examined using the random forest algorithm to create an automatic landslide-quake classifier. By validating the signal attributes of the landslide, earthquake, and noise events, specifically in the time and frequency domains, it was shown that the proposed classifier can reach an accuracy (the proportion of all correctly classified events to the total number of events) of 91.3%. To further evaluate the applicability of the automatic classifier, landslide-quakes generated during the devastating Typhoon Morakot (2009) and Typhoon Soudelor (2015) were also verified, showing that the sensitivity of the classifier is higher than 98%. Full article
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