Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Risk-Based Land Use Canada

New Westminster, BC and the Fraser River

I'm presenting a short talk on lessons learned or not on landslides at a Risk-Based Land Use Workshop. The workshop is associated with a Risk-based Land-use Guide: Safe Use of Land, Based on Hazard Risk Assessment (Geologic Survey of Canada Open File 7772). Being non Canadian, I am coming at this as a bit of an outsider which means I am learning a lot.

As for lessons I am pushing: landslide run out and LiDAR.

Debris flow run out, Whatcom County, Washington

LiDAR generated DEM of river valley and landslide deposit
 
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2 comments:

  1. fredJanuary 22, 2015 at 11:23 AM

    Where is the slide depicted in the Lidar image?

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  2. Dan McShaneJanuary 22, 2015 at 7:48 PM

    Lower end of South Fork Nooksack River. The site is a bit east of Deming, Washington.

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