Repository logo

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
  1. Home
  2. Academic and Research Output
  3. Conferences, Workshops, Symposiums, and Seminars
  4. GIS-based 3D modelling for landslide hazard assessment: increasing the objectivity of hazard maps.
 
conference paper

GIS-based 3D modelling for landslide hazard assessment: increasing the objectivity of hazard maps.

Bilgot, Séverine  
•
Parriaux, Aurèle  
2010
Abstract Volume 8th Swiss Geoscience Meeting
8th Swiss Geoscience Meeting

Recent decades have been marked by many disasters caused by natural hazards.Gravitational phenomena in particular have resulted in several deaths and extensive damage to infrastructure. Nearly 10% of Swiss territory is considered unstable. It therefore requires an effective methodology for the mapping of areas likely to be affected by this type of hazard. The aim of this project is to establish the bedrock of a new methodology for the implementation of hazard maps related to landslides based on the evaluation of slope instability predisposition. The first step of this methodology is a systematic field survey on a given study area. The information is organized by type (faults, dip, formations, boreholes, springs, streams, etc..) and then imported into a GIS. Once these data interpolated and converted into a grid of points, we obtain on the one hand a three-dimensional geological model (supplemented by geotechnical and hydrodynamic parameters measured in situ and extrapolated to the entire study area) and on the other hand an approximation of the gradient of hydraulic potential in the area.It is then possible to calculate a safety factor at each point of the model and thus to assess the susceptibility of the slope to instabilities. After crossing with a map of moderating factors (altitude, aspect, vegetation) in order to take into account the context of the slopes, it is validated by comparison with the map of phenomena to obtain the final hazard map. Achieving it is thus entirely transparent.

  • Details
  • Metrics
Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Bilgot, Séverine  
Parriaux, Aurèle  
Date Issued

2010

Publisher

Swiss Academy of Sciences

Published in
Abstract Volume 8th Swiss Geoscience Meeting
Volume
  1. Geoscience and Geoinformation - From data acquisition to modelling and visualisation
Start page

288

Subjects

landslide

•

predisposition

•

susceptibility

•

3d

•

model

•

GIS

URL

URL

http://geoscience-meeting.scnatweb.ch/sgm2010/index.html
Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

Written at

EPFL

EPFL units
GEOLEP  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
8th Swiss Geoscience Meeting

Fribourg, Switzerland

November 19-20, 2010

Available on Infoscience
November 21, 2010
Use this identifier to reference this record
https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/57994
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
  • Contact
  • infoscience@epfl.ch

  • Follow us on Facebook
  • Follow us on Instagram
  • Follow us on LinkedIn
  • Follow us on X
  • Follow us on Youtube
AccessibilityLegal noticePrivacy policyCookie settingsEnd User AgreementGet helpFeedback

Infoscience is a service managed and provided by the Library and IT Services of EPFL. © EPFL, tous droits réservés