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34 Citations
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57 Pages

Recent Phenomenal and Investigational Subsurface Landslide Monitoring Techniques: A Mixed Review

  • Kyrillos M. P. Ebrahim,
  • Sherif M. M. H. Gomaa,
  • Tarek Zayed and
  • Ghasan Alfalah

18 January 2024

Landslides are a common and challenging geohazard that may be caused by earthquakes, rainfall, or manmade activity. Various monitoring strategies are used in order to safeguard populations at risk from landslides. This task frequently depends on the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,245 Views
12 Pages

Web3DGIS-Based System for Reservoir Landslide Monitoring and Early Warning

  • Huang Huang,
  • Jianhua Ni,
  • Yu Zhang,
  • Tianlu Qian,
  • Dingtao Shen and
  • Jiechen Wang

4 February 2016

Landslides are the most frequent type of natural disaster, and they bring about large-scale damage and are a threat to human lives and infrastructure; therefore, the ability to conduct real-time monitoring and early warning is important. In this stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,718 Views
23 Pages

Research Trends and ‘Space-Sky-Ground-Underground’ Monitoring Technology Analysis of Landslide Hazard

  • Gang Cheng,
  • Haoyu Zhang,
  • Ye Wang,
  • Bin Shi,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Jinghong Wu,
  • Qinliang You,
  • Youcai Li and
  • Peiwei Shi

15 July 2024

Landslide is a typical geological disaster distributed in most countries worldwide. Due to long-term natural weathering and human engineering disturbances, the instability of landslides is prone to occur. Once monitoring and disposal methods are impl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
256 Citations
18,120 Views
21 Pages

Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI) Technique for Landslide Characterization and Monitoring

  • Veronica Tofani,
  • Federico Raspini,
  • Filippo Catani and
  • Nicola Casagli

1 March 2013

: The measurement of landslide superficial displacement often represents the most effective method for defining its behavior, allowing one to observe the relationship with triggering factors and to assess the effectiveness of the mitigation measures....

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,645 Views
13 Pages

Monitoring and Assessing the Dynamics of Building Deformation Changes in Landslide Areas

  • Lucyna Florkowska,
  • Izabela Bryt-Nitarska,
  • Rafał Gawałkiewicz and
  • Janusz Kruczkowski

30 December 2019

The paper presents the procedure and results of monitoring conducted by using a 3D measurement model, taking advantage of integrated surveying technologies developed for a building located within an activated landslide area. Geodynamic interactions w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,146 Views
21 Pages

GNSS/Accelerometer Adaptive Coupled Landslide Deformation Monitoring Technology

  • Ce Jing,
  • Guanwen Huang,
  • Qin Zhang,
  • Xin Li,
  • Zhengwei Bai and
  • Yuan Du

23 July 2022

Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning technology has become the most effective method for real-time three-dimensional landslide monitoring. However, the GNSS observation signal is easily affected by the presence of a complex landslide...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,614 Views
26 Pages

Monitoring and Data Analysis in Small-Scale Landslide Physical Model

  • Sara Pajalić,
  • Josip Peranić,
  • Sandra Maksimović,
  • Nina Čeh,
  • Vedran Jagodnik and
  • Željko Arbanas

29 May 2021

Physical modeling of landslides using scaled landslide models began in the 1970s in Japan at scaled natural slope physical models. Laboratory experiments of landslide behavior in scaled physical models (also known as flume or flume test) started in t...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,672 Views
11 Pages

Cost-Effective, Single-Frequency GPS Network as a Tool for Landslide Monitoring

  • David Zuliani,
  • Lavinia Tunini,
  • Federico Di Traglia,
  • Massimiliano Chersich and
  • Davide Curone

6 May 2022

The constant monitoring of active landslides, particularly those located in the proximity of populated areas or touristic places, is crucial for early warning and risk-management purposes. The commonly used techniques deploy expensive instrumentation...

  • Review
  • Open Access
37 Citations
7,494 Views
23 Pages

21 January 2021

Transportation infrastructure in mountainous terrain and through river valleys is exposed to a variety of landslide phenomena. This is particularly the case for highway and railway corridors in Western Canada that connect towns and industries through...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,848 Views
33 Pages

Applications and Advancements of Spaceborne InSAR in Landslide Monitoring and Susceptibility Mapping: A Systematic Review

  • Yusen Cheng,
  • Hongli Pang,
  • Yangyang Li,
  • Lei Fan,
  • Shengjie Wei,
  • Ziwen Yuan and
  • Yinqing Fang

12 March 2025

Landslides pose significant threats to human safety and socio-economic development. In recent decades, interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) technology has emerged as a powerful tool for investigating landslides. This study systematically...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,766 Views
20 Pages

22 December 2022

Landslides are one of the extremely high-incidence and serious-loss geological disasters in the world, and the early monitoring and warning of landslides are of great importance. The Cheyiping landslide, located in western Yunnan Province, China, add...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,982 Views
24 Pages

New Landslide Disaster Monitoring System: Case Study of Pingding Village

  • Yao Min Fang,
  • Tien Yin Chou,
  • Thanh Van Hoang,
  • Quang Thanh Bui,
  • Duy Ba Nguyen and
  • Quoc Huy Nguyen

25 September 2020

The Linbeiken area is located in the village of Pingding, Taiwan. Since the Mindulle and Aere Typhoons in 2004, and as a result of the landslide triggered by the continuous heavy rainfall on 9 June 2006, there has been a persistent collapse of side s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,130 Views
15 Pages

Application of Multi-System Combination Precise Point Positioning in Landslide Monitoring

  • Chen Lin,
  • Guanye Wu,
  • Xiaomin Feng,
  • Dingxing Li,
  • Zhichao Yu,
  • Xuanwei Wang,
  • Yonggang Gao,
  • Jinyun Guo,
  • Xiaole Wen and
  • Wenbin Jian

9 September 2021

To verify the positioning performance and reliability of multi-system combination Precise Point Positioning in landslide monitoring, we carried out a multi-system combination Precise Point Positioning calculation experiment on the monitoring data of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,604 Views
21 Pages

Systematic Quantification and Assessment of Digital Image Correlation Performance for Landslide Monitoring

  • Doris Hermle,
  • Markus Keuschnig,
  • Michael Krautblatter and
  • Valentin Tertius Bickel

3 December 2023

Accurate and reliable analyses of high-alpine landslide displacement magnitudes and rates are key requirements for current and future alpine early warnings. It has been proved that high spatiotemporal-resolution remote sensing data combined with digi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,473 Views
22 Pages

A Landslide Monitoring System for Natural Terrain in Korea: Development and Application in Hazard Evaluations

  • Young-Suk Song,
  • Byung-Gon Chae,
  • Kyeong-Su Kim,
  • Joon-Young Park,
  • Hyun-Joo Oh and
  • Sueng-Won Jeong

26 April 2021

This study describes the development of a landslide monitoring system for the purpose of reducing damages caused by landslides in natural terrain. The system was developed to analyze the effects of landslide-inducing rainfall and the behavior of slop...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,843 Views
20 Pages

Wireless Sensor Network-Based Rockfall and Landslide Monitoring Systems: A Review

  • Mattia Ragnoli,
  • Massimo Scarsella,
  • Alfiero Leoni,
  • Giuseppe Ferri and
  • Vincenzo Stornelli

20 August 2023

Rockfalls and landslide events are caused by different factors among which are included geomorphological and climatic factors and also human interaction. Therefore, the economic and social impacts can be significant and the remote monitoring of such...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,448 Views
13 Pages

A Monitoring Network to Map and Assess Landslide Activity in a Highly Anthropized Area

  • Giulia Bossi,
  • Matteo Mantovani,
  • Simone Frigerio,
  • Luca Schenato,
  • Gianluca Marcato and
  • Alessandro Pasuto

Mapping landslide activity in a highly anthropized area entails specific problems. The integration of different monitoring techniques in order to measure the displacements rate within the slope is mandatory. We describe our activity for the Mortisa l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,493 Views
23 Pages

A High Performance Piezoelectric Sensor for Dynamic Force Monitoring of Landslide

  • Ming Li,
  • Wei Cheng,
  • Jiangpan Chen,
  • Ruili Xie and
  • Xiongfei Li

17 February 2017

Due to the increasing influence of human engineering activities, it is important to monitor the transient disturbance during the evolution process of landslide. For this purpose, a high-performance piezoelectric sensor is presented in this paper. To...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,301 Views
27 Pages

Sensitivity Evaluation of Time Series InSAR Monitoring Results for Landslide Detection

  • Liming He,
  • Panke Pei,
  • Xiangning Zhang,
  • Ji Qi,
  • Jiuyang Cai,
  • Wang Cao,
  • Ruibo Ding and
  • Yachun Mao

7 August 2023

Spaceborne interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) techniques are important for landslide detection and monitoring; however, several limitations and uncertainties, such as the unique north–south flying direction and side-look radar obs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,403 Views
17 Pages

Seismic and Rainfall Induced Displacements of an Existing Landslide: Findings from the Continuous Monitoring

  • Paolo Ruggeri,
  • Viviene M. E. Fruzzetti,
  • Antonio Ferretti and
  • Giuseppe Scarpelli

“La Sorbella” is a deep-seated existing landslide in a Miocene clayey formation located in central Italy. Given the interaction with a national road, this landslide has been monitored for a long time with inclinometers and hydraulic piezo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,749 Views
16 Pages

Self-Sustaining Landslide Mitigation Strategy through Long-Term Monitoring

  • Filippo Tommaso Catelan,
  • Giulia Bossi and
  • Gianluca Marcato

24 November 2022

In mountain areas, anthropic pressure is growing while, concurrently, landslide frequency in most of the mountain regions of the world is increasing due to a more extreme precipitation pattern and permafrost deglaciation. Because of budget constraint...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,035 Views
19 Pages

21 August 2022

It is challenging to monitor landslides due to their heavy concealment and the extreme destructiveness during the long development of landslides. Many landslide monitoring tools are somewhat onefold. In this paper, a comprehensive landslide monitorin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,184 Views
15 Pages

14 November 2024

Landslides are geological disasters that are harmful to both humans and society. Digital elevation model (DEM) time series data are usually used to monitor dynamic changes or surface damage. To solve the problem of landslide deformation monitoring wi...

  • Abstract
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,748 Views
3 Pages

An Autonomous Multi-Technological LoRa Sensor Network for Landslide Monitoring

  • Mattia Ragnoli,
  • Paolo Esposito,
  • Gianluca Barile,
  • Giuseppe Ferri and
  • Vincenzo Stornelli

Hazards like landslides have significant economic and societal repercussions; hence, the issue of remote structure health monitoring has grown in significance for geologic applications. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) stand out among the new sensing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
6,396 Views
14 Pages

5 December 2017

Dealing with engineering structures that are not easily replaceable requires frequent assessment of the damage state of the construction in order to estimate its durability and reliability. The procedures that allow damage to be detected and identifi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,961 Views
14 Pages

A Knowledge Discovery Method for Landslide Monitoring Based on K-Core Decomposition and the Louvain Algorithm

  • Ping Wang,
  • Xingdong Deng,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Liang Guo,
  • Jun Zhu,
  • Lin Fu,
  • Yakun Xie,
  • Weilian Li and
  • Jianbo Lai

Landslide monitoring plays an important role in predicting, forecasting and preventing landslides. Quantitative explorations at the subject level and fine-scale knowledge in landslide monitoring research can be used to provide information and referen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,962 Views
11 Pages

Landslide triggered by earthquake or rainstorm often results in serious property damage and human casualties. It is, therefore, necessary to establish an emergency management system to facilitate the processes of damage assessment and decision-making...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,763 Views
20 Pages

8 November 2022

Landslides are one of the most dangerous natural disasters, which have affected national economic development and social stability. This paper proposes a method to indirectly monitor the deformation characteristics of landslides by extracting the abn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,280 Views
19 Pages

3 June 2022

Landslides that occur in the littoral zone of a reservoir can directly damage the hydraulic structures and threaten the lives and property around the reservoir. Due to the spatial variability and heterogeneities of rock mass, a limited amount of data...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,337 Views
26 Pages

27 July 2023

Bartin City is located in the Western Black Sea Region of Türkiye, where rainfall-induced landslides are more frequently observed. Although it is known that many landslides are induced by rainfall, there is limited knowledge regarding how rainfa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
8,683 Views
13 Pages

28 July 2016

Landslide monitoring is important for geological disaster prevention, where Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images have been widely used. Compared with the Interferometric SAR (InSAR) technique, intensity-based offset tracking methods (e.g., Normalize...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,722 Views
28 Pages

Application of Acoustic Emission Technique in Landslide Monitoring and Early Warning: A Review

  • Jialing Song,
  • Jiajin Leng,
  • Jian Li,
  • Hui Wei,
  • Shangru Li and
  • Feiyue Wang

6 February 2025

Landslides present a significant global hazard, resulting in substantial socioeconomic losses and casualties each year. Traditional monitoring approaches, such as geodetic, geotechnical, and geophysical methods, have limitations in providing early wa...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,489 Views
21 Pages

Research on Performance Test of the Optic-Electric Sensors for Reservoir Landslide Temperature Field Monitoring

  • Gang Cheng,
  • Zhenxue Wang,
  • Ye Wang,
  • Bin Shi,
  • Tianbin Li,
  • Jinghong Wu,
  • Haoyu Zhang and
  • Qinliang You

31 August 2023

In recent years, with the superposition of extreme climate, earthquakes, engineering disturbance and other effects, global landslide disasters occur frequently. Due to reservoir landslides being mostly in a multi-field coupling environment, the tempe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,261 Views
22 Pages

11 January 2021

Since the impoundment of the Three Gorges Reservoir (TGR) in June 2003, the fluctuation of the reservoir water level coupled with rainfall has resulted in more than 2500 landslides in this region. Among these instability problems, most colluvial land...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,504 Views
19 Pages

A Hybrid Early Warning Method for the Landslide Acceleration Process Based on Automated Monitoring Data

  • Dongxin Bai,
  • Guangyin Lu,
  • Ziqiang Zhu,
  • Xudong Zhu,
  • Chuanyi Tao and
  • Ji Fang

26 June 2022

The data collection in the automated monitoring of landslides is often characterized by large amounts of data, periodic fluctuations, many outliers, and different collection intervals. The traditional method of calculating velocity and acceleration u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,095 Views
19 Pages

7 July 2022

Detecting the mechanism of landslides and evaluating their dynamics is challenging, especially concerning composite landslides. For this purpose, several investigation and monitoring techniques should be implemented to obtain reliable information on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,357 Views
13 Pages

The design of countermeasure works to mitigate landslide risk needs to deal with the multiple unknowns that are linked with soil properties, distribution and rheology. Most of the time, the degree of definition of all these elements is low. Through l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,013 Views
12 Pages

Improving GNSS Landslide Monitoring with the Use of Low-Cost MEMS Accelerometers

  • Alberto Cina,
  • Ambrogio Maria Manzino and
  • Iosif Horea Bendea

25 November 2019

Observation and monitoring of landslides and infrastructure is a very important basis for land planning, human activities, and safety. Geomatic techniques for deformation monitoring have usually involved GNSS and total station measurements or, more g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,901 Views
20 Pages

19 November 2020

Landslide early warning systems (EWSs) have been widely used to reduce disaster losses. The effectiveness of a landslide EWS depends highly on the prediction methods, and it is difficult to correctly predict landslides in a timely manner. In this pap...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,694 Views
22 Pages

Past, Present and Future Monitoring at the Vallcebre Landslide (Eastern Pyrenees, Spain)

  • Josep A. Gili,
  • Jose Moya,
  • Jordi Corominas,
  • Michele Crosetto and
  • Oriol Monserrat

8 January 2021

Works carried out to monitor the displacements of the Vallcebre landslide (Pyrenees range, NE of Spain) since 1987 are presented. The landslide, which extends over an area of about 0.8 km2 and affects more than 20 × 106 m3, has experienced disp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,234 Views
19 Pages

16 December 2023

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a highly efficient means of monitoring landslide-prone regions, given the growing concern for urban safety and the increasing occurrence of landslides. Designing optimal UAV flight routes is crucial for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
106 Citations
11,143 Views
24 Pages

IoT-Based Geotechnical Monitoring of Unstable Slopes for Landslide Early Warning in the Darjeeling Himalayas

  • Minu Treesa Abraham,
  • Neelima Satyam,
  • Biswajeet Pradhan and
  • Abdullah M. Alamri

3 May 2020

In hilly areas across the world, landslides have been an increasing menace, causing loss of lives and properties. The damages instigated by landslides in the recent past call for attention from authorities for disaster risk reduction measures. Develo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
4,783 Views
26 Pages

Repeated UAV Campaigns, GNSS Measurements, GIS, and Petrographic Analyses for Landslide Mapping and Monitoring

  • Aggeliki Kyriou,
  • Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos,
  • Ioannis Koukouvelas and
  • Paraskevi Lampropoulou

13 March 2021

Landslides are posing a significant global hazard as they occur instantaneously with devastating consequences. The development of new remote sensing technologies and innovative processing techniques over the past few years opened up new horizons and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,039 Views
15 Pages

Instrumental Monitoring of a Slow-Moving Landslide in Piedmont (Northwest Italy) for the Definition of Rainfall Thresholds

  • Mauro Bonasera,
  • Battista Taboni,
  • Chiara Caselle,
  • Fiorella Acquaotta,
  • Giandomenico Fubelli,
  • Luciano Masciocco,
  • Sabrina Maria Rita Bonetto,
  • Anna Maria Ferrero and
  • Gessica Umili

23 May 2024

The prediction and prevention of landslide hazard is a challenging topic involving the assessment and quantitative evaluation of several elements: geological and geomorphological setting, rainfalls, and ground motion. This paper presents the multi-ap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
5,495 Views
15 Pages

11 February 2020

Landslide monitoring is a global challenge that can take strong advantage from opportunities offered by Earth Observation (EO). The increasing availability of constellations of small satellites (e.g., CubeSats) is allowing the collection of satellite...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
146 Citations
10,416 Views
20 Pages

22 June 2018

Landslide identification and monitoring are two significant research aspects for landslide analysis. In addition, landslide mode deduction is key for the prevention of landslide hazards. Surface deformation results with different scales can serve for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,926 Views
15 Pages

23 April 2021

This paper presents a recent rainfall-induced landslide in China that occurred on August 21, 2020 and resulted in nine deaths. The sliding material traveled a distance of 800 m, with an altitude difference of about 180 m. A field investigation, remot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,740 Views
16 Pages

12 July 2024

The InSAR technique is known to be a powerful tool for precise monitoring of wide areas in terms of displacements. It is conceivable to also use this technique to monitor landslide areas, but geometrical distortions due to ground morphology and land...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,318 Views
18 Pages

UAV, GNSS, and InSAR Data Analyses for Landslide Monitoring in a Mountainous Village in Western Greece

  • Konstantinos G. Nikolakopoulos,
  • Aggeliki Kyriou,
  • Ioannis K. Koukouvelas,
  • Nikolaos Tomaras and
  • Epameinondas Lyros

31 May 2023

Areas in Western Greece are particularly prone to landslides. Usually triggered by earthquakes or intense rainfalls, they cause damage to infrastructure (roads, bridges, etc.) and human properties. Hence, there is an urgent need for the implementatio...

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