Early Warning for Geological Disasters Scientific Methods and Current Practice /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wenzel, Friedemann (Editor), Zschau, Jochen (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Advanced Technologies in Earth Sciences,
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geophysics.; Natural disasters.; Geotechnical engineering.; Geoecology.; Environmental geology.; Earth Sciences.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.; Natural Hazards.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.

The past years have seen new technologies that could be utilized for early warning and real-time loss estimation. They include self-organizing sensor networks, new satellite imagery with high resolution, multi-sensor observational capacities, and crowd sourcing. From this and improved physical model...