Post-Disaster Reconnaissance Studies of Landslides in India: Current Practices and Opportunities
Publication: Geo-Extreme 2021
ABSTRACT
Recently, India has witnessed several extreme rainfall events that caused moderate to severe landslides. However, extreme landslide events and their impacts can be mitigated by implementing effective preventive measures and policies derived from well-documented reports. Systematic and efficient postdisaster reconnaissance practices coupled with imagery-based technologies are essential for collecting perishable data and detailed geodisasters documentation. A review of the current practices that are being implemented globally for acquiring spatial–temporal information using advanced technologies is presented. To this end, research articles, reconnaissance, and social media reports of a few notable extreme landslide events, namely 2013 Uttarakhand India, 2015 Kfarnabrakh Lebanon, 2018 Hokkaido Japan Eastern, were summarized. The best practices for future landslide reconnaissance studies in India, including the benefits of methodically acquiring and archiving photographic imagery using mobile devices and cloud apps, are presented.
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