NEWS received from
Manfred Stähli (WSL, Switzerland) and Ben Mirus (USGS, USA)
On February 3, 2023, a meeting of LandAware WG 5 “Innovations” addressed the role of wind speed and direction for landslide occurrence in Hurricane prone regions.
Guest speaker, Yuri Gorokhovich (Lehman College, City University of New York) illustrated how we are getting closer to predicting landslides in Hurricane prone regions in real-time using wind information.
The recorded presentation is available in the LandAware youtube channel
The next WG 5 meeting – with a completely different topic – will take place in May/June 2023.
Manfred Stähli & Ben Mirus