Geologic Hazards - Geotechnical Engineering Investigation - page 827

Automatic monitoring
for
landslide risk preparedness

GPS satellite

Lishan

GPS receiver

Three dimensional
shear displacement
meter (3D-SDM)

Extensometer

EDIM mirror
target

Extensometer

Seismogram

Sliding
surface

Borehole
inclinometer

Huaqing
palace

3D-SDM in
investigation tunnel

Telecom
line

To tal st ation
au toma tic tr acing

Lishan landslide
prevention
observatory

Telecom. via
line or satellite

DPRI, Kyoto university

FIGURE 9.135
Monitoring system for the Lishan slope prepared for landslide risk assessment. (From Orense, R.P., Geotechnical
Hazards: Nature, Assessment and Mitigation, University of the Philippines Press, Ouezon City, 2003. With
permission. After Sassa, K. et al., Proceedings of the International Symposium on Landslide Hazard Assessment, 1-24,
Xian, China, 1997.)

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