Landslide warnings from satellites may save lives

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Saving Italian hydRological mEasuremeNts (SIREN), a new project in Italy aims to… How Flood Forecasting in Real Time, With Block-by-Block Data, Could Save Lives.

A Safer Future: Reducing the Impacts of Natural Disasters (1991)

The application of new techniques in satellite remote sensing, geophysics, and geotechnical engineering for delineating landslide hazard areas should be ...

The Landslide Handbook— A Guide to Understanding Landslides

Warning systems and subsequent evacua- tion work in some instances may save lives. However, warning systems require active monitoring, and a reliable ...

World Tsunami Awareness Day | United Nations

Tsunamis can be deadly, but they needn't be. Early warning and early action are effective tools to protect people, saving lives, and preventing the hazard from ...

Predictive Analytics in Disaster Prevention: Machine Learning ...

This proactive stance not only saves lives but also reduces the economic burden of disasters by minimizing damage and speeding up recovery processes. Machine ...

Without Warning: A Lack of Weather Stations Is Costing African Lives

In early May, heavy rainfall led to severe flooding and hundreds of landslides ... Investing in early warning systems in Africa will save lives.

Saving lives with better disaster warnings | NHK WORLD-JAPAN ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency earlier this year rolled out a new five-level disaster warning scale to be used for floods and landslides.

Guarding against the floods: One woman's fight to save lives in Nepal

With simple tools and a decentralised communication network, they provide vital hours of advance notice to 74 flood-prone villages. This early warning can mean ...

Flash floods - National Weather Service

Furthermore, flash flood-producing rains can also trigger catastrophic mud slides. You will not always have a warning that these deadly, sudden floods are ...

Identification of Landslide Precursors for Early Warning of Hazards ...

These techniques enable earth observation from satellite, airborne, and ground altitudes [8,9,10], contrary to traditional techniques, and can be implemented on ...

Research analyses potential of satellite data in detecting ground ...

As landslide activity affects the ground surface, satellite information can provide insights about both surface changes and factors that may ...

Land Movement Updates | Rancho Palos Verdes, CA - Official Website

An Evacuation Warning remains in effect for the Portuguese Bend Community Association (PBCA) neighborhood, pending the continuity of sewer operation, in the ...

Innovative landslide disaster monitoring: unmanned aerial vehicle ...

Real-time monitoring technologies of surface deformation represented by the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) are essential for landslides early warning ...

New landslide forecasting system helping researchers save lives in ...

Feeding SAFE-RISCCS forecasts into Landslide Early Warning Systems will protect people living in the shadow of landslides, ensuring far more ...

Landslide Warning Area Delineation through Seismic Signals and ...

Publishing timely warnings of areas potentially affected by landslides and subsequent events remains challenging in hazard assessment.

NASA, Pacific Disaster Center release new landslide hazard alerting ...

This map of hazard likelihood can help agencies and officials rapidly assess areas where the current landslide risk is high. It can also give ...

Nepal rolls out AI-powered 'crystal ball' to predict deadly landslides

“It is an AI tool that can forecast the risk of a landslide at a given location and future time.” Nepal's mountainous terrain, precarious slopes ...

Landslide Early Warning Systems—fundamental concepts and ...

... Once a data is received at the base unit that indicates there is potential landslide, early warning system (EWS) plays a major role to alert the people ...

Prediction of the spatiotemporal distribution of landslide: Integrated

Landslide warning systems can save lives and reduce damages if properly implemented in populated areas of landslide-prone nations. Comprehensive modeling of ...

Landslides – News, Research and Analysis - The Conversation

Many people who survived the catastrophic landslide in PNG are likely to be facing serious injuries and illness, with warnings of a significant risk of ...