As part of the XII IAEG congress in Torino (Italy) Milos Marjanovic co-chaired a session on Advanced landslide field instrumentation and monitoring. The session gathered multidisciplinary researchers from China to Canada with illustrative case studies and novel ideas in slope monitoring, ranging from LiDAR to acoustic techniques. Milos' presentation in which he focuses on LiDAR applications for a case study along an important motorway corridor in Serbia is now available online. He demonstrated how LiDAR-based analysis was suitable for kinematic assessment of discontinuities, measurement of various slope parameters, extracting accurate transect lines and volumes, and finally slope monitoring through time. Along with co-authors, he allocated several smaller rockfalls on the slope in 2013-14 monitoring sequence and estimated their volumes. LiDAR and other advanced techniques seem very promising in finding their use in modern geotechnical site investigation and monitoring. You can view a video of Milos' presentation here on the IAEG website.
2014/01/12 Video presentation on LiDAR applications for slope monitoring hosted on IAEG website
