Natural Disasters

Back in 2018 we reported on some interesting research being done by Daniel Hölbling ( Department of Geoinformatics—Z_GIS , University of Salzburg) and his colleagues on landslide detection, monitoring and forecasting. Since then he has been continuing this research and recently…

"Similar to earthquakes, landslides are next to impossible to predict," explained Daniel Hölbling, a research scientist at the University of Salzburg, in a recent article entitled “ Shifting Approaches to Landslides ”   published in The American Surveyor . Hölbling…

In late August 2017, the gulf coast of Texas found itself in the path of Hurricane Harvey. In a 4-day period, Harvey brought immense rainfall (more than 40 inches 1,000 mm) to a number of communities along the coast, including Houston -…