European
Geophysical Society
XXII General Assembly - Wien, Austria, 21-25 April 1997
Symposium NH2
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Co-convener: Dr. Alberto Carrata
CNR-CSITE Bologna, Corso Risorgimento, 1, Bologna, Italy
Tel:+39 51 644.3551, Fax:+39 51 644.3540
E-mail: carrara@deis158.deis.unibo.it
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Catastrophes, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, flash floods, shore erosions, volcanic eruptions, landslides, and groundwater pollution constitute a major problem in many developing and developed countries. In the recent years the population growth and the expansion of settlements and life-lines over potentially hazardous areas have largely increased the impact of natural disasters. Third-world countries have been unable to face the high costs involved in controlling natural hazards through major engineering works and rationale land-use planning. Owing to the global recession, industrialised societies are increasingly less eager to invest a great deal of money to reduce natural risks by means of structural measures. The new issue seems to be the development of warning systems and land utilisation regulations aimed at miminising the loss of lives and property damage without investing in long-term, costly projects of ground stabilisation.
Toward the end of the International
Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR) the symposium is an opportunity
to critically evaluate current methods for predicting natural catastrophes,
for mitigating their impact and to investigate the potential of new technological
advancements for improving hazard evaluation and risk reduction. Among
these new technologies Geographical Information Systems, Remote Sensing,
telecomunications, and tools to support the decision-making process appear
the most promising.
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Goals of the open forum
The forum is intended to stimulate an open discussion on the subject of the symposium as well as on any other closely related subject before the date of the symposium. We hope in this way to disseminate information and to stimulate a discussion that will hopefully contribute to a better and more fruitfull symposium. Individuals intersted in these (or related) arguments are strongly invited to contribute to the discussion. Any comment, idea, suggestion or criticism on the symposium or on any single contribution presented on these pages should be addressed to the Conveners as well as to all the partecipants that provided an e-mail address.
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A total of 49 contributions were submitted to the symposium. Since not all of the people that submitted an abstract will be able to attend the symposium here you can find all the abstracts that were submitted.
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Tuesday, 22 April 1997
Lecture Room: I (Basement)
General concepts
Chairperson: F. Guzzetti
09.00 - A. Carrara, M. Cardinali, F. Guzzetti & P. Reichenbach
Current Trends in Coping with Natural Disasters
09.30 - C-J. F. Chung
Prediction Models in Spatial Data Analysis for Geologic Hazards
10.00 - D.L. Turcotte, B.D. Malamud & G. Morein
Natural Hazards as Examples of Self-Organized Criticality
10.15 - C.J. van Westen, F. Mantovani & A.C. Seijmonsbergen
Formalizing Expert Opinion in Landslide Hazard Zonation
10.45 Break
Landslides, debris flows and snow avalanches
Chairperson: C-J. Chung
11.15 - C-J. F. Chung, S. Obayashi & H. Kojima
Evaluation of Quantitative Prediction Models for Landslide Hazard
11.30 - T. Kubota
A Study of Fractal Dimensions of Landslides and Neural Network Susceptibility Analysis
11.45 - M. Lazzari & P. Salvaneschi
GIS and Artificial Intelligence for Landslide Monitoring
12.00 - M. Parise & J. Wasowski
Use of Landslide Activity Maps for the Evaluation of Landslide Hazard: Three Case Studies from Southern Italy
12.15 - K. Kleemayr, M. Platzer, S. Simma & G. Volk
Integrating Energy Line Concepts Into a Grid Model for Avalanche Runout Zone Mapping
12.30 Lunch
Chairperson: A. Carrara
Floods
14.00 - G. Boni, P. La Barbera & F. Siccardi
The Evaluation of the Flood Frequency in the Mediterranean Region: a new Approach Merging Results from Quantitative Meteorology and Hydrology
14.15 - G. Boni, L. Ferraris & P. La Barbera
A New Method for the Evaluation of the Flood Risk. Case Study: the Western Part of the Liguria Region of Northern Italy
14.30 - J. Boardman
Flooding of Property by Runoff from Agricultural Land in Western Europe: Risk and Mitigation
Volcanoes
14.45 - L. Cavarra & M.T. Pareschi
A GIS for Volcanic Risk at Vesuvius
15.15 - G.M. Crisci, S. Di Gregorio, F. Nicoletta, R. Rongo & W. Spataro
Forecasting Lava Risk for the Etnean Area by Cellular Automata Methods of Simulation
15.30 - M.F. Buongiorno, M.P. Bogliolo, S. Teggi & S. Pugnaghi
Combining Optical Airborne Image Data and Atmospheric Measurements to Estimate and Map SO2 in Tropospheric Volcanic Plumes
15.45 - R. Ieni, Rasa', R. Tripodo & L. Villari
A First Attempt by Thematic Mapping to Assess the Hazard and Risk of Lava Flow Invasion in the Eastern Flank of Mt. Etna Volcano (Sicily, Italy)
16.00 Discussion
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Wednesday, 23 April 1997
Lecture Room: G1 (Basement)
Chairperson: C.J. van Westen
Earthquakes
9:30 - B. Rudyanto, Y. Ogawa, H. Taniguchi & E. Itoigawa
Evaluation of Natural Hazards by using GIS and Remote Sensing Techniques - An Analysis on Great Hanshin Earthquake
9.45 - U. Mena, J. A. Canas & L. G. Pujades
Risk Assessment in Barcelona, Spain, Using GIS
10.00 - V.Gitis
Geoinformation Technology for Seismic Hazard Assessment and Earthquake Prediction Research
10:15 - C.A. Brunori, E. Boschi, F. Buongiorno, M. Calcara, F. Doumaz, M. Guerra, G. Mele, P. Montone, L. Pizzino, F. Quattrocchi, S. Salvi, S. Lombardi, F. Zampetti, R. Funicello, F. Salvini, A. Billi, M. Angelone, M. Zuppi & B. Marty
The Geochemical Seismic Zonation: a GIS Multidisciplinary Application for Seismic Surveillance
Groundwater contamination
10:30 - M. Civita, M. De Maio & G. Manelli
Forecasting and Prevention of Contamination of Groundwater Resources for Human Supply Using GIS Technology
10.45 - F. Facchino & G. Giuliano
Assessing Potential Contamination of Groundwater From Pesticides with GIS Techniques
Planning and Emergency management
11.00 - J.P.Conoscente & L. Johnson
Natural Catastrophe Emergency Response: Use of GIS Post-Event Damage Tools
11.15 - F. Silvestri, G. Di Filippo & E. Cardarelli
Natural Risks Factors in Industrial Areas: Study Case Analysis and Description
11.30 Discussion
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POSTERS & VIDEOS - All subjects
Display Time: Monday, 21 April 1997 14:00 - Friday, 25 April 1997 14.00
Authors in Attendance: Tuesday, 22 April 1997 17.00-19.00
Poster Area: NP
Chairperson: A. Carrara & F. Guzzetti
NP055 - J. Heiland
Translational Block-Type Movements in the Austrian Limestone Alps
NP056 - A. Belloni, F. Milani, N. Padovan, M. Presbitero & F. Luino
Determination of Flooding Areas Within Urban Planning in the Lombardia Regione - Italy
NP057 - R. Azzaro, E. Vittori, L. Ferreli, A.M. Michetti & L. Serva
The Pernicana Fault (Mt. Etna, Sicily): An Example of Environmental Hazard from Capable Faulting
NP058 - T. Caltabiano
SO2 flux measurements at Mt. Etna using a correlation spectrometer COSPEC and a new real-time elaboration system
NP059 - C. Del Negro & R. Napoli
Piezomagnetic Effects Induced by Artificial Sources on Mt. Vesuvio (Italy)
NP060 - L. Bolognesi
Earthquake-Induced Variations in the Composition of Thermal Waters on Vulcano Islands, Italy
NP061 - V. R. Berkman & V. Korepanov
The Tools for Monitoring of Magnetic Precursors of Seismic Hazards
NP063 - A.V. Chesnokov, A.P. Govorum, O.P. Ivanov, V.I. Liksonov, S.V. Smirnov, V.N. Potapov, V.N. Fedin, S.B. Shcherbak & L.I. Urutskoev
Technique and device to measure Cs-137 soil deposit characteristics in-site
NP064 - L.M. Ivanov, T.M. Margolina & S.V. Stanichny
Alarm System for Marine Ecological Disasters based on the Remote Sensing Control in the Azov-Black Sea Region
NP065 - A. Marani E. Calogero & B. Eiselt
A New Environmental Database for Venice and its Lagoon
NP066 - E. Pugliese Carratelli, E. Sansone & G. Spulsi
Redaction of a Civil Protection Plan for Sea-related Hazards
NP067 - J. Stemberk & J. Novotny
The Vanov Landslide
NP068 - G. Dayu & H. W. Weinmeister
On Improvement of Natural Disaster Warning System
NP069 - S. De Martino, M. Mattera, G. Monetti & C. Sabbarese
Radon Migration in the Solfatara Crater, Campi Flegrei
Video Presentation: Tuesday 19.10-19.30
NP070 M. Arattano, & G. Lollino
The Use of Geophones as Monitoring and Warning Systems for Debris Flows
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