Journal
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
Volume 12, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app12042193
Keywords
coastal areas; landslides; lidar; UAS; remote sensing; coastal development; TLS; Ionian
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The use of Unmanned Aerial System (UAS)-aided photogrammetry and Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) can improve our understanding of the structural integrity of coastal slopes, helping to identify segments that are more prone to instability and failure, thereby improving the prioritization of interventions and mitigating risks for local development.
Coastal areas constitute a very dynamic environment, balancing between numerous natural and anthropogenic processes liable to sometimes hazardous geomorphic phenomena. Especially in tectonically active coastal regions and areas of high economic value, slope failures can have significant impacts and therefore need careful and detailed examination. This work uses Unmanned Aerial System (UAS)-aided photogrammetry and Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) in tectonically active segments of the coastal zone of the Ionian Islands in Greece, to explore how their capabilities can help to improve our understanding of the structural integrity of the slopes. Results show that the two approaches are able to extract large numbers of discontinuity facets, in a more practical, rapid and safe way than conventional methods of rock slope stability analysis extending to unreachable yet important parts of the slope. Through this holistic record of the structural condition of the slope the two applications allow the identification of segments that are more prone to instability and failure. In this way, they improve our understanding of the prioritization of interventions aiming to enhance the prevention of slope failures, mitigating the associated risk and improving local development in these high-value locations.
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