TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - A Real-time monitoring and early warning system for landslides in Southwest China
JO  - Journal of mountain science
A1  - Ju, Neng-pan
A1  - Huang, Jian
A1  - Huang, Run-qiu
A1  - He, Chao-yang
A1  - Li, Yan-rong
SP  - 1219
EP  - 1228
VL  - 12
IS  - 5
N2  - Landslides not only cause property losses, but also kill and injure large numbers of people every year in the mountainous areas. These losses and casualties may be avoided to some extent by early warning systems for landslides. In this paper, a realtime monitoring network and a computer-aided automatic early warning system (EWS) are presented with details of their design and an example of application in the Longjingwan landslide, Kaiyang County, Guizhou Province. Then, according to principle simple method of landslide prediction, the setting of alarm levels and the design of appropriate counter-measures are presented. A four-level early warning system (Zero, Outlook, Attention and Warning) has been adopted, and the velocity threshold was selected as the main warning threshold for the landslide occurrence, but expert judgment is included in the EWS to avoid false alarms. A case study shows the applicability and reliability for landslide risk management, and recommendations are presented for other similar projects.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1672-6316
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11629-014-3307-7
ID  - ref1
ER  -