The paper deals with the use of thermography to assess landslide risk. Landslide is a natural process which affects soil. In specific conditions, it can even become cause of death and damages to buildings and structures. Due to climate changes, landslide events have increased in the last years. Sensor networks are today widely used to monitor landslide triggering events. Main problems concern the development costs of such networks, so today attention is principally focused on the use of measurement systems which allow to monitor wide zones at distance. Recently researchers are considering the use of infrared thermography as a promising tool for monitoring landslide process.The paper aims to describe the current potentialities of thermography and its limitations. Several issues and open problems are still to be faced before considering such technique as an effective monitoring tool. For this reason, the author reports the results of a measurement campaign to prove the strengths and weakness of the methodology. Relevant aspects concerning the limits of this measurement technique are described in the following to provide suggestions to users and researchers working in this field.

Potentialities and Limitations of Thermography to Assess Landslide Risk / Morello, R. - In: MEASUREMENT. - ISSN 0263-2241. - 116:(2018), pp. 658-668. [10.1016/j.measurement.2017.11.045]

Potentialities and Limitations of Thermography to Assess Landslide Risk

Morello R
2018-01-01

Abstract

The paper deals with the use of thermography to assess landslide risk. Landslide is a natural process which affects soil. In specific conditions, it can even become cause of death and damages to buildings and structures. Due to climate changes, landslide events have increased in the last years. Sensor networks are today widely used to monitor landslide triggering events. Main problems concern the development costs of such networks, so today attention is principally focused on the use of measurement systems which allow to monitor wide zones at distance. Recently researchers are considering the use of infrared thermography as a promising tool for monitoring landslide process.The paper aims to describe the current potentialities of thermography and its limitations. Several issues and open problems are still to be faced before considering such technique as an effective monitoring tool. For this reason, the author reports the results of a measurement campaign to prove the strengths and weakness of the methodology. Relevant aspects concerning the limits of this measurement technique are described in the following to provide suggestions to users and researchers working in this field.
2018
thermography, landslide, thermal image processing
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