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Realtime Display Of Landslide Monitoring Data, Russ Pennell, D. Ruberu, P. Flentje

Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers

In areas of high landslide risk, dangerous situations can develop rapidly. The system described here provides near real-time landslide information via the web to researchers, emergency personnel and others assisting them to assess developing risks. Remote field stations collect data continuously and download this to a central site at varying intervals via mobile phone. Processing and display software written using the ASP.NET framework stores the data in directly-graphable form and displays graphs in response to web requests. Design challenges included the changing nature of the instruments in the field, resolved by the use of user-editable configuration files that allowed for …