Open AccessSlope Monitoring System at a Slope Behind an Important Cultural Asset
Author(s) -
Kazunari Sako,
Ryoichi Fukagawa,
Tomoaki Satomi
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of disaster research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.332
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1883-8030
pISSN - 1881-2473
DOI - 10.20965/jdr.2011.p0070
Subject(s) - warning system , asset (computer security) , slope failure , field (mathematics) , geology , lidar , cultural heritage , construct (python library) , early warning system , environmental resource management , meteorology , landslide , geotechnical engineering , environmental science , physical geography , computer science , engineering , geography , remote sensing , computer security , archaeology , mathematics , aerospace engineering , programming language , pure mathematics
Rainfall-induced slope failure has been responsible for great death and destruction in Japan. This is thus a primary consideration in preserving Japan’s many cultural important temples, palaces, and similar structures, especially in the ancient capital of Kyoto, where many important cultural assets are located on hillsides and near mountains. Our objective is to construct a slope-disaster warning system using real-time field measurement data, in-situ and laboratory testing, and numerical models. We set up field monitoring on a slope behind an important cultural asset in July 2004 to measure pore-water pressure, temperature, and rainfall intensity [1]. We firstly introduce our slope-disaster warning concept and field measurement results for the slope behind the important cultural asset in Kyoto. And then we discuss the relationship of rainfall intensity, seepage behavior, and slope failure based on monitoring data and model test results using a soil box apparatus.