The Development of Techniques for Landslide Hazard Analysis Project is a three-year project supported by the Republic of Korea through the Korea Ministry of Science & Technology (MOST) and Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM). The project aims to develop the techniques for the assessment of landslide hazard in the CCOP Member Countries and will be implemented from August 2002 – July 2005. The project will comprise of workshops, training in GIS and remote sensing, construction of GIS-based databases, pilot areas for landslide hazard analysis in selected member countries and application verification techniques for field assessment.

Background

          Landslides cause extensive damage to property and occasionally result in loss of life. The problem is critical in developing countries where warning and protection measures are particularly difficult to implement due to the limitation of economic conditions. Countries in the CCOP region, like in Korea, had suffered from landslides triggered by heavy rainfall.

          In Korea, many researches have been carried in landslide hazard analysis using GIS spatial analysis and remote sensing techniques. The application of remote sensing methods such as aerial photographs and satellite imagery can be used to obtain significant and cost-effective information on landslides while a GIS provides the ability to organize, visualize, and merge spatial data sets from various sources and allows quantitative spatial analysis. So these two techniques can be effectively applied to landslide hazard analysis. Further field investigation can be performed to verify the results from the two techniques.

Goals

1. To transfer the state-of-the-art techniques of GIS and construction of GIS-based databases in the CCOP Member Countries.
2. To transfer the state-of-the-art of remote sensing studies and identify the locations of past landslides using satellite imagery.
3. To transfer the state-of-the-art of GIS-based techniques for quantitative assessment of landslide hazard.
4. To apply the GIS-based techniques for quantitative assessment of landslide hazard to real situations in the CCOP Countries.
5. To cooperatively promote the development of techniques for prevention of geological hazards for mutual benefit.
   
   

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