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Landslide Disaster: Assessment and Monitoring


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Natural disasters such as earthquake, landslide, flood, drought, cyclone, volcanic eurptions, enviornmental degradation etc. are of global phenomenon. Most of the countries are experiening either one or more disasters at regular interval. International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, of the UN resolution (1989) aims at minimizing the loss of life damage to property and disruption of economic social activieis through concerted actions. Dissemination of the existing and new technical information related to measures for the assessment, prediction and mitigation of natural disasters through awareness programms is one among the objectives.Landslides pose serious threat to human settlements and structures used for transportation, natural resources management and tourism. It imparts significant damages to properlty highway, railway, waterwasy and pipelines. The slide evens were reported to have triggered mainly by rainfall earthquake and human activities. There is a need to understand the developments in the physical and atmospheric sciences, engineering, management and society and disaster medicine.The present work contains papers and compiled inforamtion that highlight various aspects of the landslide disaster and migitagion measures that are essential in planning for landsclide preparedness. This volume is brought out with support of colleguese at CSRE, ISRO IIT Space Technology cell and curriculum development program IIT Bombay whose aim is to disseminate knowledge and spread awareness about landslides.Trust the readers would benefit by this book. About Author : Dr. R Nagarajan is Principal Research Scientists, Centre for Studies in resources Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai. Contents : PrefaceLandslide Classification monitoring and Risk AssessmentGeological structural and tectonical aspects of landslidesTerrain evaluation and Mitigation for LandslidesMathematical modeling in slope stability analsysisMathematical modeling in slope stability analysisRemote sensing and landslide hazard zonation of Road network in parts of Chamba ValleyLandslide Hazard Zonation using spatial models in GISLandslide Hazards zonation using spatial models in GISRecent Trends in landslide Hazard Zonation and Risk assessmentLandslide Hazad Assessment along the selected Highways in Sikkim HimalayaSar Interferometry and its application LandslidesPrinciples of GramGlobal positioning system and its application to landslideAnalysis of Stereo imagesNeural network and fuzzy logic in remote sensingand other chapters......


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  • ISBN-13: 9788126118175
  • ISBN-10: 8126118172


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