Brief Communication: A new testing field for debris flow warning systems and algorithms

Autor: Lorenzo Marchi, Joshua Theule, Velio Coviello, Marco Cavalli, Pierpaolo Macconi, Francesco Comiti, Massimo Arattano, Stefano Crema
Rok vydání: 2015
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DOI: 10.5194/nhessd-3-1717-2015
Popis: Early warning systems (EWSs) are among the measures adopted for the mitigation of debris flow hazards. EWSs often employ algorithms that require careful and long testing to grant their effectiveness. A permanent installation has been so equipped in the Gadria basin (Eastern Italian Alps) for the systematic test of event-EWSs. The installation is conceived to produce didactic videos and host informative visits. The populace involvement and education is in fact an essential step in any hazard mitigation activity and it should envisaged in planning any research activity. The occurrence of a debris flow in the Gadria creek, in the summer of 2014, allowed a first test of the installation and the recording of an informative video on EWSs.
Databáze: OpenAIRE