Assessment of Landslide Risk in Dynamic Environments

Ongoing

The FFG-sponsored project Assessment of Landslide Risk in Dynamic Environments (ALaDyn) aims at assessing rainfall-induced landslides in dynamically changing environments. The study focuses on the influence of increasingly occurring extreme precipitation events, but also looks at the impact of e.g. deforestation and more.

In southern Styria, Austria, where rainfall-induced landslide events from 2009 and 2023 are well documented and can be linked to specific rainfall-events, landslide susceptibility models are developed, which combine dynamic weather (e. g. ExtremesDT developed under DestinE) and land-use data (e.g. Copernicus) with static geomorphological and geological information, to produce landslide hazard maps.The goal is to create a digital twin in form of an automated prototype, which provides daily landslide hazard maps based on before-mentioned dynamic changes.

Therefore, ALaDyn aims at a better forecasting of rainfall-induced landslides during heavy rainfall events or due to land use changes.

For more detail refer to: 

FFG: https://projekte.ffg.at/projekt/5129569 

JOANNEUM RESEARCH: https://www.joanneum.at/digital/en/projects/aladyn/