Establishment of an Integrated Landslide Early Warning and Monitoring System in Populated Areas

Abstract

In this work a complete permanent system of timely landslide warning and monitoring in Greece is presented. This system is the first that is designed for a densely residential and mountainous environment. Since 1960’s several instability phenomena have been recorded in one of the most traditional settlements in Greece, Metsovo, Region of Epirus. The last major landslide event occured in 2010–2011, and lead to serious damages on the construction and infrastructure within the settlement. The wider geological regime consists of Olonos-Pindos formations with the main appearance of the flysch one of the most critical landslide prone geological formations in Greece. The combinational use of dynamic geotechnical and satellite research methods is discussed as part of this study. In addition, one of the main goals of this investigation is to combine long term monitoring of the parameters connected to the landslide activity with the observation of the landslide kinematics in real time for the planning and realization of a Landslide Early Warning System (LEWS) in Greece.KeywordsGreeceReal-timeMonitoringLandslide early warning systems (LEWS)