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Earthquake‐Induced Chains of Geologic Hazards: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Impacts Open
Large earthquakes initiate chains of surface processes that last much longer than the brief moments of strong shaking. Most moderate‐ and large‐magnitude earthquakes trigger landslides, ranging from small failures in the soil cover to mass…
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Combination of GNSS, satellite InSAR, and GBInSAR remote sensing monitoring to improve the understanding of a large landslide in high alpine environment Open
The investigation of large landslides in high alpine environments is often hindered by the difficult accessibility of the mountainous terrain. Efforts are typically concentrated on the remote measurement of the surface displacements, in or…
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A Methodology to Detect and Update Active Deformation Areas Based on Sentinel-1 SAR Images Open
This work is focused on deformation activity mapping and monitoring using Sentinel-1 (S-1) data and the DInSAR (Differential Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) technique. The main goal is to present a procedure to periodically updat…
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Geohazards, reflection and challenges in Mountain tunnel construction of China: a data collection from 2002 to 2018 Open
In face of the complicated and changing geological conditions, safety issue is always a primary concern during the construction phase of tunnel in the mountainous regions of China. This Express Letter reports data collection concerning the…
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Evaluation of landslide susceptibility mapping techniques using lidar-derived conditioning factors (Oregon case study) Open
Landslides are a significant geohazard, which frequently result in significant human, infrastructure, and economic losses. Landslide susceptibility mapping using GIS and remote sensing can help communities prepare for these damaging events…
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Permanent earthquake‐induced actions in buried pipelines: Numerical modeling and experimental verification Open
Summary Buried pipelines are often constructed in seismic and other geohazard areas, where severe ground deformations may induce severe strains in the pipeline. Calculation of those strains is essential for assessing pipeline integrity, an…
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Sensing Earth and environment dynamics by telecommunication fiber-optic sensors: an urban experiment in Pennsylvania, USA Open
Continuous seismic monitoring of the Earth's near surface (top 100 m), especially with improved resolution and extent of data both in space and time, would yield more accurate insights about the effect of extreme-weather events (e.g., floo…
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Evaluation of the SBAS InSAR Service of the European Space Agency’s Geohazard Exploitation Platform (GEP) Open
The analysis of remote sensing data to assess geohazards is being improved by web-based platforms and collaborative projects, such as the Geohazard Exploitation Platform (GEP) of the European Space Agency (ESA). This paper presents the eva…
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World-wide InSAR sensitivity index for landslide deformation tracking Open
Landslides are a major geohazard in hilly and mountainous environments. In-situ inspection of downslope motion is costly, sometimes dangerous and, requires prior knowledge of the existence of a landslide. Remote sensing from space is a way…
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Review on the Geophysical and UAV-Based Methods Applied to Landslides Open
Landslides (LS) represent geomorphological processes that can induce changes over time in the physical, hydrogeological, and mechanical properties of the involved materials. For geohazard assessment, the variations of these properties migh…
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Assessing the Feasibility of a National InSAR Ground Deformation Map of Great Britain with Sentinel-1 Open
This work assesses the feasibility of national ground deformation monitoring of Great Britain using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery acquired by Copernicus’ Sentinel-1 constellation and interferometric SAR (InSAR) analyses. As of Dec…
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Rapid collaborative knowledge building via Twitter after significant geohazard events Open
Twitter is an established social media platform valued by scholars as an open way to disseminate scientific information and to publicly discuss research results. Scientific discussions on Twitter are viewed by the media, who can then pass …
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Direct monitoring of active geohazards: emerging geophysical tools for deep‐water assessments Open
Seafloor networks of cables, pipelines, and other infrastructure underpin our daily lives, providing communication links, information, and energy supplies. Despite their global importance, these networks are vulnerable to damage by a numbe…
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Origin of spectacular fields of submarine sediment waves around volcanic islands Open
Understanding how large eruptions and landslides are recorded by seafloor morphology and deposits on volcanic island flanks is important for reconstruction of volcanic island history and geohazard assessment. Spectacular fields of bedforms…
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Using the Google Earth Engine to rapidly monitor impacts of geohazards on ecological quality in highly susceptible areas Open
Frequent geohazards have knock-on effects on ecological quality. Timely and dynamically monitoring the damage of geohazards to ecological quality is important to the geological hazards prevention, ecological restoration, and policy formula…
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Developments in Engineering Geology Open
Developments in Engineering Geology is a showcase of the diversity in the science and practice of engineering geology. All branches of geology are applicable to solving engineering problems and this presents a wide frontier of scientific o…
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Three-Dimensional Modeling of Tsunami Waves Triggered by Submarine Landslides Based on the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Method Open
Submarine landslides are a global geohazard that can displace huge volumes of loose submarine sediment, thereby triggering enormous tsunami waves and causing a serious threat to coastal cities. To investigate the generation of submarine la…
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Unveiling the Global Extent of Land Subsidence: The Sinking Crisis Open
Land subsidence, referring to the vertical sinking of land surface, is a significant geohazard posing serious risks to security of infrastructure, natural resources, built environment, and businesses in numerous places worldwide. Using dee…
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Risk assessment and management of vulnerable areas to flash flood hazards in arid regions using remote sensing and GIS-based knowledge-driven techniques Open
Earth Observation from space has allowed characterizing, detecting, and managing natural hazards in spatiotemporal scale. Flash flood is the most frequent natural disaster that causes destruction to human lives, the economy, and infrastruc…
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Railway Alignment Optimization in Mountainous Regions Considering Spatial Geological Hazards: A Sustainable Safety Perspective Open
Sustainable railway construction and operation are threatened by densely occurring geological hazards in complex mountainous regions. Thus, during the alignment optimization process, it is vital to reduce the harmful impacts of geological …
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Shaping Sustainable Urban Environments by Addressing the Hydro-Meteorological Factors in Landslide Occurrence: Ciuperca Hill (Oradea, Romania) Open
Romania is one of the countries severely affected by numerous natural hazards, where landslides constitute a very common geomorphic hazard with strong economic and social impacts. The analyzed area, known as the “Ciuperca Hill”, is located…
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Matrix SegNet: A Practical Deep Learning Framework for Landslide Mapping from Images of Different Areas with Different Spatial Resolutions Open
Practical landslide inventory maps covering large-scale areas are essential in emergency response and geohazard analysis. Recently proposed techniques in landslide detection generally focused on landslides in pure vegetation backgrounds an…
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The Application of Terrestrial LiDAR for Geohazard Mapping, Monitoring and Modelling in the British Geological Survey Open
Geomatics is the discipline of electronically gathering, storing, processing, and delivering spatially related digital information; it continues to be one of the fastest expanding global markets, driven by technology. The British Geologica…
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InSAR stacking with atmospheric correction for rapid geohazard detection: Applications to ground subsidence and landslides in China Open
Earth observation technologies have great potential in the investigation, monitoring and assessment of various geohazards. Stacking is an efficient InSAR method for estimating deformation rates and helps in the generation and update of the…
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Self-sharpening induces jet-like structure in seafloor gravity currents Open
Gravity currents are the primary means by which sediments, solutes and heat are transported across the ocean-floor. Existing theory of gravity current flow employs a statistically-stable model of turbulent diffusion that has been extant si…
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InSAR Study of Landslides: Early Detection, Three-Dimensional, and Long-Term Surface Displacement Estimation—A Case of Xiaojiang River Basin, China Open
Landslides, a major natural geohazard, obstruct municipal constructions and may destroy villages and towns, at worst causing significant casualties and economic losses. Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) technique offers dist…
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High-resolution shear-wave seismic reflection as a tool to image near-surface subrosion structures – a case study in Bad Frankenhausen, Germany Open
Subrosion is the subsurface leaching of soluble rocks that results in the formation of depression and collapse structures. This global phenomenon is a geohazard in urban areas. To study near-surface subrosion structures, four shear-wave se…
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Detecting slow-moving landslides using InSAR phase-gradient stacking and deep-learning network Open
Landslides are a major geohazard that endangers human lives and properties. Recently, efforts have been made to use Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (InSAR) for landslide monitoring. However, it is still difficult to effectively and…
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Complex and Cascading Triggering of Submarine Landslides and Turbidity Currents at Volcanic Islands Revealed From Integration of High-Resolution Onshore and Offshore Surveys Open
Submerged flanks of volcanic islands are prone to hazards including submarine landslides that may trigger damaging tsunamis and sediment-laden seafloor flows (called “turbidity currents”). These hazards can break seafloor infrastructure wh…
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Geohazards Susceptibility Assessment along the Upper Indus Basin Using Four Machine Learning and Statistical Models Open
The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project passes through the Karakoram Highway in northern Pakistan, which is one of the most hazardous regions of the world. The most common hazards in this region are landslides and debris flows,…