NASA On Air: NASA Landslide Catalog Now Available (4/21/2015)
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- Dalia B Kirschbaum
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LEAD: A new website now totals up landslide occurrences and resulting deaths across the U.S. and the world.
1. NASA and other researchers have tracked global news and web reports of rain-caused landslides since 2007.
2. Between 2007 and 2013, more than 20,000 people have died in 6,000 landslides - an average of 2,500 per year.
3. An interactive website will help researchers match future news reports of landslides with the data of heavy rain from a new satellite-based network covering Earth.
TAG: Early warning for potential landslides is the long-term goal.
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Credits
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animator
- Joy Ng (KBRwyle)
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Data visualizer
- Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC)
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Video editor
- Joy Ng (KBRwyle)
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Scientists
- Dalia B Kirschbaum (NASA/GSFC) [Lead]
- Gail Skofronick Jackson (NASA/GSFC)
- George Huffman (NASA/GSFC)
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Producer
- Howard Joe Witte (ADNET)
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Global Landslide Catalog Aids View From Space
Read moreLandslides are among the most common and dramatic natural hazards, reshaping landscapes -- and anything in their path. Tracking when and where landslides occur worldwide has historically been difficult, because of the lack of a centralized database across all nations. But NASA researchers have updated the first publicly available Global Landslide Catalog, based on media reports and online databases that bring together many sources of information on landslides that have occurred since 2007. The catalog, originally released in 2010, is still the only one of its kind.Around 6000 landslides are noted in the catalog. This wealth of data gives scientists a starting point to analyze where, how and why landslides are likely to occur. In particular, NASA researchers have begun to compare landslide occurrence with global rainfall data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission.The catalog is currently available at: http://ojo-streamer.herokuapp.com/.Research: Spatial and temporal analysis of a global landslide catalog.Journal: Geomorphology, March 21, 2015.Link to paper: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X15001579.Here is the YouTube video. ||
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Instagram: Global Landslide Catalog Aids View From Space
Read moreLandslides are among the most common and dramatic natural hazards, reshaping landscapes -- and anything in their path. Tracking when and where landslides occur worldwide has historically been difficult, because of the lack of a centralized database across all nations. But NASA researchers have updated the first publicly available Global Landslide Catalog, based on media reports and online databases that bring together many sources of information on landslides that have occurred since 2007. The catalog, originally released in 2010, is still the only one of its kind.Around 6000 landslides are noted in the catalog. This wealth of data gives scientists a starting point to analyze where, how and why landslides are likely to occur. In particular, NASA researchers have begun to compare landslide occurrence with global rainfall data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission.The catalog is currently available at: https://landslides.nasa.gov/Research: Spatial and temporal analysis of a global landslide catalog.Journal: Geomorphology, March 21, 2015.Link to paper: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X15001579. ||
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