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Book SynopsisThis open access book provides an overview of the progress in landslide research and technology and is part of a book series of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). It gives an overview of recent progress in landslide research and technology for practical applications and the benefit for the society contributing to understanding and reducing landslide disaster risk.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Editorial of the new open access book series “Progress in Landslide Research and Technology” (Kyoji Sassa).- Part I. Original Articles.- Chapter 2. Key Techniques of Prevention and Control for Reservoir Landslide Based on Evolutionary Process (Huiming Tang).- Chapter 3. Landslide research and technology in patent documents (Matjaž Mikoš).- Chapter 4. Scalable Platform for UAV Flight Operations, Data Capture, Cloud Processing and Image Rendering of Landslide Hazards and Surface Change Detection for Disaster-Risk Reduction (David Huntley).- Chapter 5. Ongoing persistent slope failures at the toe of a giant submarine slide in the Ryukyu Trench that generated the AD 1771 Meiwa tsunami (Kiichiro Kawamura).- Chapter 6. Experimental simulation of landslide creep in ring shear machine (Netra Prakash Bhandary).- Chapter 7. Assessment of the effects of rainfall frequency on landslide susceptibility mapping using AHP method: a case study for a mountainous region in central Vietnam (Chi Cong Nguyen).- Chapter 8. Suffosion landslides as a specific type of slope deformations in the European part of Russia (Oleg V. Zerkal).- Chapter 9. In situ triaxial creep test on gravelly slip zone soil of a giant landslide: innovative attempts and findings (Qinwen Tan).- Chapter 10. Challenges and lessons learned from heavy rainfall induced geo-disasters over the last decade in Kyushu Island, Japan (Noriyuki Yasufuku).- Chapter 11. Effect of landslide deformation on the stability of St. Andrew's Church (Kyiv, Ukraine): Applications of remote sensing and mathematical modeling (Oleksandr Trofymchuk).- Chapter 12. Application of Global Satellite Positioning and Automatic Monitoring in Slopeland Disaster Prevention (Thanh -Van Hoang).- Chapter 13. Landslide warning systems in upper middle-income countries: current insights and new perspectives (Irasema Alcántara-Ayala).- Chapter 14. 30 years of Cultural Heritage Landslides and block movements Risk assessment: Case studies from Egypt (Yasser Elshayeb).- Part II. Review articles.- Chapter 15. Review of the Founding Issue of P‐LRT: Progress in Landslide Research and Technology (Shinji Sassa).- Chapter 16. Landslide detection and spatial prediction: Application of data and information from landslide maps (Snježana Mihalić).- Chapter 17. Long-lasting Post-quake Deformation Buildups in the Grounds that Spread Laterally in Recent Earthquakes (Kazuo Konagai).- Chapter 18. 10th Anniversary of ICL Adriatic-Balkan Network and 5th Regional Symposium on Landslides (Željko Arbanas).- Chapter 19. Landslide detection and spatial prediction: Application of data and information from landslide maps (Željko Arbanas).- Chapter 20. Coseismic Stress Changes, Landslides in the 2004 Mid-Niigata Prefecture Earthquake, and their Impact on Post-quake Rehabilitations (Kazuo Konagai).
