The Applicability Study for Landslide Monitoring with GPS Satellite Survey

Early detection of areas prone to landslides is a necessary safeguard in order to ensure the safety of people, business and facilities within these regions. This paper focuses on the feasibility of using a Global Positioning System Global (GPS) with a system for Mobile Communication (GSM) to relay land movement to remotely located monitoring modules. The system utilized Simple Messaging Services (SMS protocols) in concordance with postprocessing software to gather and evaluated land movement. Several tests were conducted in Taiwan's Wu Fong Chi district of Ilan. This area is known for landslides. The tests included static and localized simulations along with landslide simulating experiments. Two different distances from the monitoring area to the reference site were assessed. These distances, also known as baselines were evaluated and the differences of accuracy were recorded. Through the usage of Global Systems for Mobile Communication (GSM), the data was successfully conveyed through wireless communication. According to the experiments, the usage of short baseline length promoted both the precision surveying and calculation of the information. Additionally, a Global Positioning Monitoring Systems (GPS) was able to render results for both short and long distance baselines that were within centimeters of accuracy.