{"id":35711,"date":"2020-12-07T07:34:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T07:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=35711"},"modified":"2020-12-07T07:34:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T07:34:08","slug":"mount-eagle-peat-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2020\/12\/07\/mount-eagle-peat-slide\/","title":{"rendered":"High resolution satellite imagery of the Mount Eagle peat slide"},"content":{"rendered":"

High resolution satellite imagery of the Mount Eagle peat slide<\/h4>\n

In the middle of November two peat slides occurred in\u00a0 the Republic of Ireland, triggered by heavy rainfall.\u00a0 The slide at Mount Eagle<\/a> received far less coverage than the landslide at Meenbog<\/a>, but was nonetheless significant.<\/p>\n

Planet Labs have very kindly captured high resolution satellite imagery of the Mount Eagle slide.\u00a0 This is not an easy area to image at this time of year\u00a0 as cloud coverage is high, but on 25 November they were successful.\u00a0 This is the image:-<\/p>\n

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The Mount Eagle Peat landslide. Planet Labs<\/a> SkySat image, copyright Planet Labs<\/a>, used with permission.<\/p><\/div>\n

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This image requires some explanation.\u00a0 High ground is to the south – the terrain slopes towards the north.\u00a0 On the east side of the image some wind turbines can be seen, but these are not apparently a factor in this landslide.<\/p>\n

In the centre of the image there are two peat slides in the trees.\u00a0 The one to the west is an older failure – the timing is not clear but this slide is visible on Google Earth images.\u00a0 Immediately to the east is another peat slide – this is the one that occurred in November.\u00a0 It is larger then the earlier one.\u00a0 Interestingly the head scarps are very close together.<\/p>\n

The November 2020 Mount Eagle peat slide appears to have retrogressed further than the earlier event, with the head scarp extending beyond the tree line and into the unforested area.\u00a0 Note that the blocks derived from the unforested area have travelled only a few metres, suggesting that this was late in the evolution of the landslide.<\/p>\n

Between these two peat slides and the wind turbines to the east is a large, heavily eroded gully.\u00a0 I would speculate that this was another, much earlier landslide, but I have no further information.<\/p>\n

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Quickslide: AGU Fall landslide sessions<\/h4>\n

This week sees the start of the main landslide sessions at the AGU Fall Meeting<\/a>.\u00a0 This is the schedule:<\/p>\n

Monday, 7 December 2020 <\/span> <\/span><\/h4>\n

Poster:<\/span> NH001 <\/span> Debris Flows and Floods in Mountainous Terrain II Posters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

10:30 \u2013 11:30<\/span> EP007 <\/span> The Influence of Landslides on Sediment Dynamics from Source to Sink I eLightning <\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n

20:30 \u2013 21:30:<\/span> NH006 <\/span> Debris Flows and Floods in Mountainous Terrain I<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Tuesday, 8 December 2020<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

Poster: NH009 <\/span> Monitoring Geomorphic Change: Strengths and Weaknesses of Different Remote Sensing Methodologies to Support Regional Geohazard and Risk Assessments I Posters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Monday, 14 December 2020 <\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

Poster:<\/span> NH027 <\/span> Advances in Analysis and Prediction of Rockfalls, Rockslides, and Rock Avalanches II Posters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Poster:NH030 <\/span> The Landslide Life Cycle: From Hazard Analysis to Risk Assessments III Posters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

07:00 \u2013 08:00<\/span>: NH029 <\/span> The Landslide Life Cycle: From Hazard Analysis to Risk Assessments I<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

08:30 \u2013 09:30:<\/span> NH031 <\/span> The Landslide Life Cycle: From Hazard Analysis to Risk Assessments II<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Tuesday, 15 December 2020<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

16:00 \u2013 17:00:<\/span> NH034 <\/span> Advances in Analysis and Prediction of Rockfalls, Rockslides, and Rock Avalanches I eLightning<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Reference and acknowledgement<\/h4>\n

Planet Team (2020). Planet Application Program Interface: In Space for Life on Earth. San Francisco, CA. https:\/\/www.planet.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

High resolution satellite imagery from Planet Labs showing the Mount Eagle peat slide in the Republic of Ireland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":35714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7203],"tags":[144,469,303,983,1145,25],"class_list":["post-35711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-planet-labs","tag-europe","tag-featured","tag-ireland","tag-landslide-images","tag-peat","tag-satellite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35711","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=35711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}