From the refinement of geological models to risk management: The role of landslide monitoring

This paper focuses on monitoring activities carried out by the CERI Research Centre, which in the last few years was tasked to establish monitoring networks, designed also to support landslide-related risk management. Two main case histories are hereby highlighted as they refer to sites where it was possible to test innovative monitoring approaches. Such approaches mainly consist of designing integrated monitoring platforms, where new (e.g., laser Scanners and Ground-based In-SAR) and “traditional” (geotechnical and topographic) techniques and the related potentials are combined. In addition, as monitoring is at present a quite well experimented tool in the emergency phase management (i.e., real-time prediction), the CERI is producing an effort in order to monitor and, thus, control the variation of parameters that can be treated as precursors of paroxystic phases (i.e., differed time prediction), more suitable for sites where sensitive structure/infrastructures are present.