Scientists Use Satellite Data To Predict Landslides

摘要

For more than a decade, satellites have provided vivid images of hillside communities and roads destroyed by landslides. Increasingly, researchers are using space-based sensors to pinpoint the causes of landslides and determine where they will strike. "The goal is not to identify whether a landslide will happen on a single hill at a given time, but to try to provide a general indication of the chance of a land-slide occurring," said Dalia Kirschbaum, research scientist in the Hydrological Sciences Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.