Abstract
Recurring disastrous landslides cause great damage worldwide and many people were affected during the last decades. Obviously there is a strong demand for developing and improving early warning systems to save lives and properties. Although strong efforts were made in the last decade, the understanding of the hazards and the forecasting of critical events are still particularly weak points of the early warning chain. In an ongoing research project a new approach to improve these critical points in the field of early warning systems of landslides is pursued: complex finite element (FE) simulations of landslides are coupled with geoinformation systems (GIS). This chapter researches the interconnection between the GIS and the FE-Analysis system. Further, two main operational modes, the learning system and the decision support system mode, for such a coupled system are introduced and a workflow for these system is proposed and investigated in detail.
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The funding of the research project by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the German Research Foundation (DFG) under grant no. 03G0645A et al. is gratefully acknowledged. This is publication no. GEOTECH-1217 (http://www.geotechnologien.de).
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Ortlieb, E., Reinhardt, W., Trauner, FX. (2010). Development of a Coupled Geoinformation and Simulation System for Early Warning. In: Konecny, M., Zlatanova, S., Bandrova, T. (eds) Geographic Information and Cartography for Risk and Crisis Management. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03442-8_18
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