{"id":23732,"date":"2017-05-04T06:44:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T06:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=23732"},"modified":"2017-05-04T06:49:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T06:49:16","slug":"community-slope-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2017\/05\/04\/community-slope-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Slope SAFE: vote for a low cost landslide warning system"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Community Slope SAFE<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lboro.ac.uk\/enterprise\/enterprise-awards\/one-to-watch\/safe\/\">Community Slope SAFE<\/a> is a landslide early warning system that has been under development for some years by Professor Neil Dixon and colleagues at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lboro.ac.uk\/?external\">Loughborough University<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/09\/09\/a-round-up-of-intersting-events-and-documents-in-the-world-of-landslides-and-slopes\/\"> I have covered this work before<\/a> &#8211; in essence it uses technology to listen to acoustic emissions generated when a landslide moves, and then uses electronics to process that information to provide a warning.\u00a0 Of course that very simple description hides a great deal of complexity &#8211; how to collect the signal and not background noise, and how to interpret that signal as indicating that the slope is on the move, for example.\u00a0 One aspect of this work has been the development of a low cost system designed to be used in vulnerable communities in less affluent countries, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slopealarms.com\/index.php\/community-slope-safe\/\">Community Slope SAFE<\/a>.\u00a0 The team have just installed their first system in Malaysia, working with an NGO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fhi360.org\/\">FHI 360<\/a> and various other partners.<\/p>\n<p>There is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QbHXvknh8SE\">youtube video online highlighting the strengths of this system<\/a>, which shows great promise.\u00a0 As the spate of recent landslides in for example Kyrgyzstan shows, there is a real need to develop techniques that can protect communities when neither relocation nor mitigation are an option.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QbHXvknh8SE\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slopealarms.com\/\">The project also has a detailed website<\/a> that provides details of how it operates and of the potential applications of the system.\u00a0 This image, from the site, shows an installed Slope Alarms system:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23737\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23737\" class=\"wp-image-23737 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2017\/05\/17_05-Slope-SAFE-1-e1493879506181.jpg\" alt=\"Community Slope SAFE\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-23737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An installed Slope Alarms system, via the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slopealarms.com\/index.php\/media-gallery\/\"> Slope Alarms website<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The project has been submitted for an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lboro.ac.uk\/enterprise\/enterprise-awards\/\">Enterprise Award at Loughborough University<\/a>.\u00a0 The outcome will be decided by a public vote &#8211; you can vote on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lboro.ac.uk\/enterprise\/enterprise-awards\/one-to-watch\/\">right hand side of this page<\/a>.\u00a0 In my view it would be terrific to see a landslide project win this award.\u00a0 Developing systems that effectively protect communities against landslides in poor countries is a holy grail of landslide work.\u00a0 This system shows real promise.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community slope SAFE is a new, low cost landslide warning system designed to protect vulnerable communities in less affluent countries.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":23737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[561],"tags":[4418,469,4413],"class_list":["post-23732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monitoring-2","tag-enterprise","tag-featured","tag-landslide-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}