Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/T005653/1
Landslide Mitigation Informatics (LIMIT): Effective decision-making for complex landslide geohazards.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor M Lim, Northumbria University, Fac of Engineering and Environment
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr N Jin, Northumbria University, Fac of Engineering and Environment
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor J E Martin, Northumbria University, Fac of Engineering and Environment
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor H Torun, Northumbria University, Fac of Engineering and Environment
- Grant held at:
- Northumbria University, Fac of Engineering and Environment
- Science Area:
- Atmospheric
- Earth
- Freshwater
- Marine
- Terrestrial
- Overall Classification:
- Unknown
- ENRIs:
- Biodiversity
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Global Change
- Natural Resource Management
- Pollution and Waste
- Science Topics:
- Regional & Extreme Weather
- Storm risk
- Design Engineering
- Designing for Risk
- Earth Engineering
- Landslides
- Survey & Monitoring
- Risk assessment
- Abstract:
- Landslides or the threat of landslides can cause significant economic disruption and pose a risk to life. Relatively small events can affect wide areas, particularly where the primary road network is sparse and there is limited scope for rerouting and diversion. Rainfall triggers the majority of landslides in the U.K. and national level 24-hr forecasts exist (for emergency response agencies), but there is uncertainty surrounding what combination(s) of duration and intensity trigger slope failures on a site specific level and why similar events do not always lead to the same event/no-event outcome. These knowledge gaps are critical where decisions must actively be made to warn users of (or close) linear infrastructure such as roads and rail in order to saves lives and costs. This lack of specificity, combined with the high costs of traditionally instrumenting known 'at risk' locations, hinders effective decision-making for key authorities and their partners. As a result many essential components of the environment are not monitored in advance, or on a wide-scale / high-resolution (spatial and temporal) basis. LIMIT will make use of and develop the next generation of low-cost and low-power integrated network (and networks of networks) sensors combined with edge processing and multi-threshold trigger based streaming of key data in near real-time to allow decisions underpinned by advanced theories of failure mechanics. The result is low cost, wide coverage provision of data that analyses the state of the environment and forecasts future behaviour at higher spatial and temporal resolutions than previously possible, integrated into a seamless 'data chain' from site to decision-makers. Data and key derivations based on fundamental process science are automatically ingested/shared into a newly constructed digital environment via an intelligent hierarchical platform. The outputs are fit for national data sets and modelling; policy makers deciding on sensor networks for monitoring evolving risk due to long-term environmental changes; operational decision-makers tasked with real-time management of acute threats to life; right though to data provision and two-way engagement with the individuals at risk. Innovative low-cost, in situ near real-time data streaming/processing sensors resiliently linked to an integrated portal with automated reporting offers a viable and transformative solution to end-user challenges. The LIMIT feasibility study will generate new field validated intelligent monitoring informatics, underpinned by advanced theories of failure mechanics, to provide critical data on the increasing likelihood and then the occurrence of slope failures in real-time.
- Period of Award:
- 14 Feb 2020 - 13 Feb 2021
- Value:
- £121,852 Split Award
Authorised funds only
- NERC Reference:
- NE/T005653/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Innovation (R)
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Digital Environment
This grant award has a total value of £121,852
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| DI - Other Costs | Indirect - Indirect Costs | DA - Investigators | DI - Staff | DA - Estate Costs | DI - T&S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £5,201 | £54,492 | £20,287 | £36,319 | £3,539 | £2,016 |
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