Advances in catastrophic slope failure forecasts

On most days, a weather forecast is a convenient answer to simple questions, like : do I need an umbrella? How windy will it be?  

For high stakes questions around landslide hazards, how do we deal with slope failure forecast? And are there any new tools improving our capabilities without waiting to learn from another disaster?

Andrea Manconi, research scientist at the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF joins us to discuss new satellite dataand methods to get ahead of the next slope collapse.

Read the original paper: https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-3833-2024