A portable continuous GPS array used as rapid deployment monitoring system during landslide emergencies in Emilia Romagna

Alessandro Corsini (a), Francesco Bonacini (a), Marco Mulas (a), Francesco Ronchetti(a), Antonio Monni (b), Sara Pignone (b), Sabrina Primerano (b), Giovanni Bertolini (c), Giuseppe Caputo (c), Giovanni Truffelli (c), Andrea Benini (d) & Matteo Berti (e)
(a) University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences, , Largo S. Eufemia, 19, 41121 Modena, Italy. E-mail: alessandro.corsini@unimore.it (b) Emilia Romagna Region, Agency of Civil Protection, Bologna, Italy (c) Emilia Romagna Region, Technical Basin Service of Po river affluents, Reggio Emilia and Parma, Italy (d) Emilia Romagna Region, Technical Basin Service of Romagna, Rimini, Italy (e) University of Bologna, Department of Biological, Geologic and Environmental Sciences, Bologna, Italy

The possibility to rapidly deploy a continuous monitoring system in and around an active landslide during an emergency is crucial in order to gather information for hazard and risk scenarios updates. This paper deals with the use of an optimized portable and self-powered array of continuous GPS receivers that has been used for rapid deployment in several landslides during 2013 and 2014 emergency events in Emilia Romagna. In order to optimize the array of GPS receivers, so to make it a sort of plug-and-play system that can be operative in a few hours only and provide data in near-real time,, several technical and logistic issues had to be pre-evaluated and solved in the configuration of the system. These issues are illustrated in the short note together with some of the results obtained in the monitored sites.

Landslides, Monitoring, Continuous GPS, Emergency.