10. Opportunity and Challenges in the Remote Sensing Era

In the remote sensing era, many opportunities exist that can potentially improve storm-triggered landslides studies (e.g., Ekstrom and Stark 2013). For example, for remote locations such as Alaska, the precipitation on snow packs adding to the melt-thaw cycle and many summer season landslides previous less well known because of the uninhabitated nature of the regions. In the tropical region, infrared and visible imageries make the track and intensity forecasting for tropical cyclones more accurate and the readiness in its flash floods and landslides warning. Increased using of realistic, full physics numerical weather prediction models, with the adding of remote sensing precipitation such as the NASA/TRMM, makes more and more feasible for quantitative precipitation forecasts (QPFs), the ability for numerical to be able to forecast the probabilities of extreme weather and heavy precipitation at specific times and locations, which has apparent geo-hazard consequences.