24. Construction and Application of a Real-Time Monitoring System for Landslides

Monitoring and early warning is an important measure for geological disaster mitigation, the goal being to avoid or reduce major casualties and huge property losses. The information obtained for landslide deformation process is valuable for analysis and for the understanding of deformation law and landslide process. Real-time monitoring can achieve automatic continuous monitoring data collection, and this timely information is critical for analysis and for decision-making to avoid lengthy response times which can delay emergency measures, causing serious consequences. A more rapid response capability has been regarded as important by more and more people and has become the inevitable trend for monitoring of geological disasters. The research results are systematically summed up by the Research and Demonstration for Technology and Method on Geologic Hazard Monitoring and early warning investigations of the Ministry of Land and Resources P.R.C. The goals are to demonstrate the components and benefits of real-time monitoring, including implementing the methods of single-chain construction of the real-time system, the subsequent monitoring network, data collection system, data transmission system, and the data processing and information dissemination system. The goal is also to introduce and demonstrate the construction and implementation of the system and to show measures to deal with failure. This work will have implications for the installation of future real-time monitoring systems.