Technology guide: Monitoring of natural hazards

The GEOPREVENT technology guide is available online now. The guide includes more than 40 pages and illustrates the setup of a monitoring system. It explains the state-of-the-art technology applied for warning and alarm systems and contains the following topics;

Introduction to monitoring systems

• Warning and alarm systems
• Operation modes
• Monitoring system setup
• System components

Detecting natural hazards 

• Avalanches
• Rock instabilities and rockfall
• Debris flows
• Slope failures

Technologies 

• Radar: interferometric radar, avalanche radar, rockfall radar, people radar. radar gauge
• Lidar: terrestrial laser scanner
• Optical: deformation camera
• More: crack meters, geophones and seismometers, trigger line, GNSS, combi motion sensor

The technology guide (full version) is available for download here.