SAVE THE DATE for the new LandAware online event!
June 1st, 2023
– 9AM EDT
– 2PM UTC
– 3PM CEST
– 6:30PM IST
Agenda
• keynote lectures on innovative tecniques for landslide early warning
• discussion on data-related issues
• networking activities for early-career scientists/professionals
Pre-register by filling this form: https://forms.gle/vnCKyGH2BDmEvRiC6
Stay tuned for updates!
NEWS received from
Davide Tiranti (Regional Agency for Environmental Protection of Piemonte region, Italy)
The Research Topic “Advances and applications in modeling, assessment, and mitigation of landslide disasters” under Geohazards and Georisks, specialty section of Frontiers in Earth Science (3.661 Impact Factor 3.2 CiteScore) is now open for manuscripts submission!
Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 June 2023
Manuscript Submission Deadline: 15 October 2023
Key themes include, but are not limited to:
• Structural and geomorphological features of landslides at various scales
• Indoor laboratory physical modeling of landslides
• Theoretical analysis on the formation mechanism of landslides
• Risk and stability assessment method for landslides
• Applications of advanced earth observation technologies in landslides
• Numerical simulation of landslides subjected to rainfall and earthquake
• In-depth controlling factor analysis of landslides
• Time-series analysis of sensor data for landslides monitoring
As we did in 2022, we would like to take advantage of the fact that some LandAware members will be in Vienna at #EGU23 at the end of April… to get together for one evening, to meet and talk in person.
We chose Thursday, April 27, 2023, because that’s the day many sessions on landslides prediction and early warning (particularly NH3.7 Towards innovative Landslide monitoring, modelling, and Early Warning Systems) are scheduled, thus we are assuming that if you will attend EGU23 , you will most likely be in Vienna on that evening.
The get-together will be an informal dinner with good Austrian beer, self-funded by the participants (unfortunately LandAware doesn’t have any funding to manage), in a restaurant/brewery: Salm Brau (webpage). We suggest we meet there at 7:30 PM.
If you are in Vienna on that day, and you like the idea, we ask you to FILL THIS FORM (https://forms.gle/Yja3b4Xwu1j7T3wG7), as we need to know in advance the number of people participating (a reservation is necessary in that place).
Looking forward to seeing you in Vienna!
News received from
Dylan Mikesell (NGI, Norway)
Fifth Workshop on Machine Learning with IoT data for the IoT-based methods and analyses Working group
Tuesday, April 11, 2023 – 16:00-17:30 CEST
On Wednesday 22nd February 2023, LandAware members participated to the Global FOREWARN Community meeting, with a special focus on landslides.
Here are the meeting minutes
Below the full recording of the meeting:
NEWS received from
Luca Piciullo (NGI, Norway)
Joint Technical Workshop (WG8 & ISSMGE TC309) on Landslide Warning and Prediction using IoT and Machine Learning
February 23, 2023 09:00-12:00 CET
Teams Meeting ID: 331 710 067 783 – Passcode: V6tSh9
NEWS received from
Manfred Stähli (WSL, Switzerland) and Ben Mirus (USGS, USA)
On February 3, 2023, a meeting of LandAware WG 5 “Innovations” addressed the role of wind speed and direction for landslide occurrence in Hurricane prone regions.
Guest speaker, Yuri Gorokhovich (Lehman College, City University of New York) illustrated how we are getting closer to predicting landslides in Hurricane prone regions in real-time using wind information.
The recorded presentation is available in the LandAware youtube channel
The next WG 5 meeting – with a completely different topic – will take place in May/June 2023.
Manfred Stähli & Ben Mirus
NEWS received from
Davide Tiranti (Department of Natural and Environmental Risks, Regional Agency for Environmental Protection of Piemonte – ARPA Piemonte, Italy)
A new Special Issue entitled “Geomorphological Mapping Research for Landslide” in the GeoHazards journal (MDPI) is currently open for contributions. The Special Issue is guest edited by Davide Tiranti.
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/geohazards/special_issues/RU4KF6FCE3
Without a thorough knowledge of the landslides’ distribution on the territory you cannot lay the basis for developing a LEWS. The mapping of landslides is the first fundamental step through which it is possible to establish the relationships between landslides and the territorial and climatic variables responsible for their triggering and evolution.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to collect scientific works aimed at mapping landslides and the applications that derive from them, such as the production of inventory maps, susceptibility maps, hazard/risk maps, urban planning, and the development of tools in a GIS environment aimed at collecting, processing, analysis, visualization and dissemination of landslide data.
If you are interested in submitting your manuscripts to the SI, but your institution does not fund the open access publication, please contact Davide Tiranti to get a 100% APC discount (a maximum of 10 discounts are available).
NEWS received from
Hiroaki Nakaya (NILIM-MLIT, Japan) and Graziella Devoli (NVE, Norway)
LandAware Working Group 1 releases its first/initial version of glossary and catalog as a result of its activities for the first two years.
These are tentative in their nature, but more than merely passing, collaborative efforts of related associates and observers of the WG during the Pandemic of COVID 19.
The outline was briefly discussed in the Workshop held in October 2022 in Zurich, and additional explanation is to be made in the Interpraevent in Taiwan, postponed until next April, 2023.
It is hoped that members of the LandAware, together with other professional communities, refer to the common terminology enlisted in the glossary and to the Catalog, which definitely needs periodic update, to facilitate communication both internally within the community and externally with-out for extensional purpose.
The catalog and the glossary can be reached though this link https://www.landaware.org/glossary-and-catalog-of-lews/
They are open; and citation is to be made as “LandAware Working Group 1 Catalog, 2022.”
With much appreciation,
Chair Hiroaki NAKAYA of Japanese NILIM-MLIT and Co-Chair Graziella Devoli of Norwegian NVE.
The first General Assembly (GA) of the LandAware network was held online on Friday, December 2, 2022.
After a brief recounting of the genesis of LandAware and its first two years of activities, the GA discussed the reorganization proposal made by the Executive Committee (EC), particularly regarding the working groups (WGs).
The proposal unanimously voted by the GA participating members is the following: