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27 March 2018
You can help compile the NASA landslide catalogue
NASA has now introduced a tool called Landslide Reporter that allows users to upload data to the NASA landslide catalogue
29 October 2015
The amazing Tonzang landslides in Burma – NASA images
NASA EO-1 images have revealed the extent of the amazing Tonzang landslides in Burma, which occurred earlier this year. The largest landslide is 5.9 km long
1 September 2015
NASA landslide video visualizing rainfall-induced mass movements between 2007 and 2015
The new NASA landslide video visualizes global rainfall-induced landslides between 2007 and 2015.
13 June 2013
NASA Imagery of the Bingham Canyon landslide
NASA have collected an excellent satellite image of the Bingham Canyon landslide in Utah, USA
16 January 2013
New research: extreme precipitation and landslides in 2010
A review of a paper examining the linkages between high levels of landslides in 2010 and large scale rainfall patterns
24 August 2011
New satellite images of the Attabad landslide site
An update on the situation at Attabad, using new satellite data collected by NASA
24 September 2010
Remarkable NASA imagery of catastrophic flooding around Manchhar Lake in Pakistan
NASA have provided the most dramatic evidence yet of the catastrophic floods that are occurring around Manchhar (Manchar) Lake in Pakistan (see my post yesterday on this issue). This image was captured by the ALI instrument on 18th September: Compare this with an image taken of the same area just three days earlier: Or the Google Earth image of the same area, which was collected in May this year: Geo-TV, …
1 October 2008
Mars Odyssey image of landslide
Although landslides on other planets have not been a major theme of this blog, there is an interesting area of science that focuses on these intriguing phenomena. Of course a great deal of this research is quite difficult given our poor knowledge of the conditions on and in the slopes when they occur. The availability of increasingly high resolution imagery is however helping in the understanding of these features. There …
27 June 2008
TRMM and landslide monitoring
One of the most admirable science projects at NASA at the current time is an attempt to create a global landslide and flood warning system using the Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission satellite data. TRMM using a precipitation radar system to provide near real time data on the intensity of rainfall in the tropical and subtropical regions. NASA then make these data available on the TRMM website. The usefulness of these …
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
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