Evaluation of physical and morphometric parameters for water resource management in Gad Watershed,Western Ghats,India: an integrated geoinformatics approach

The selected study area is a coastal watershed which receives high rainfall in the monsoon season. During this period, most of the water input to the watershed drains to the Arabian Sea without any adequate use due to the rugged topography of the watershed. Hence, an attempt has been made to assess the physical properties specifically morphometric parameters of the Gad watershed using geoinformatics techniques along with field evidence for understanding the relationship between fluvial landforms and hydro-physical parameters in the region. Morphometric parameters have been analyzed and integrated with physical parameters like topography, rainfall, soil, land use–land cover, geology, and geomorphology for evaluating the potential water resource availability in the Gad watershed. The results of the study have shown that there is high surface water availability in the watershed with very low water retaining capacity, mainly in the upper region of the watershed due to presence of basaltic bedrock and steep slopes. Based on this work, a water resource management plan has been suggested at a subwatershed level which established on the physical properties and morphological characteristics of the study area.     

Implementation of an integrated vulnerability and risk assessment model

An integrated vulnerability and risk assessment model (IVR) is proposed. The proposed model is a composite index that assesses the relationships among four critical components, namely exposure, hazard, vulnerability and capacities and measures, and how these can be used to illustrate the integrated risk and vulnerability situation of an area. These factors are assessed using individual variables. Fifty-four variables, objectively decided upon, were used to measure the contribution of each component factor. The general characteristics of vulnerability, risk, exposure and capacities and measures are well known; however, the relative importance of each variable and their inter-relatedness, in measuring risk and vulnerabilities, as demonstrated by the IVR; and how these in turn affect the impacts of natural hazards, are still debatable. The IVR though provides a valid, reliable and sensitive tool, which can be used to further explore these relationships. Through robust testing and application, subjectivity in the selection of variables can be reduced. Moreover, through the establishment of a database for data collection and storage, objectivity (reliability) can be achieved as well as, availability of the requisite data inputs. The sensitivity of the model allows for the quick identification of strategic action, which will ultimately lead to hazard loss reduction. The values yielded for each component factor can help decision-makers in the allocation of scarce developmental funds as well as identify trends in levels of risk, vulnerability, exposures and capacities and measures as well as determine areas where mitigation strategies are needed most.     

金属矿山地质灾害信息管理系统的开发

文章总结了目前我国金属矿山普遍采用人工记录、档案管理的灾害信息管理模式中存在的问题。在对我国金属矿山地质灾害全面调查和分类基础上,构建金属矿山地质灾害数据库,并建立灾害信息管理局域网,开发了金属矿山地质灾害信息管理系统(Geological Hazard Information Managment System for Metal Mine,GHIMSMM)。该系统实现了对灾害发生时间、地点、灾情、灾害诱因、经济损失、灾害分类等查询功能,并可根据该系统分析各类灾害的发展趋势。系统集成了MAPGIS地理信息系统平台部分功能,成功地将GIS技术应用到金属矿山地质灾害防治、监测工作中。     

苏南地区地质灾害区划评价

苏南是江苏省经济发展水平较高的地区,也是全国人口密度较大、经济较发达和城镇化程度较高的地区,地质灾害是影响苏南快速发展的重要因素之一。研究采用层次分析法,尝试以重要性、危害性和易发性3个要素作为指标建立评价体系,对苏南地区进行地质灾害区域划分,并在区划基础上考虑社会经济因素对地质灾害危害程度的影响,将苏南地区划分出地面沉降重点防治区和滑坡塌陷重点防治区2个重点防治区,其他区域为一般防治区。评价结果对于苏南地区地质灾害防治工作具有较大的参考价值。     

公路建设用地地质灾害危险性评估实践与认识——以湖北襄-十高速公路襄武段为例

文章以湖北省襄-十高速公路襄樊至武当山段为例，提出了建设用地地质灾害危险性评估范围、评估重点的确定方法，就地质灾害危险性的涵义展开讨论并给出了明确定义。结合工程实践，对现状评估、预测评估与综合评估的要点、方法展开论述，提出高速公路地质灾害危险性等级划分标准，同时提出以防灾工程投入比大小评估建设用地土地适宜性的量化指标，并对存在的主要问题提出相应建议。     

苏南地区地质灾害区划评价

苏南是江苏省经济发展水平较高的地区,也是全国人口密度较大、经济较发达和城镇化程度较高的地区,地质灾害是影响苏南快速发展的重要因素之一。研究采用层次分析法,尝试以重要性、危害性和易发性3个要素作为指标建立评价体系,对苏南地区进行地质灾害区域划分,并在区划基础上考虑社会经济因素对地质灾害危害程度的影响,将苏南地区划分出地面沉降重点防治区和滑坡塌陷重点防治区2个重点防治区,其他区域为一般防治区。评价结果对于苏南地区地质灾害防治工作具有较大的参考价值。     

Landslide hazard zonation in and around Thodupuzha-Idukki-Munnar road, Idukki district, Kerala: A geospatial approach

Landslide hazard zonation in and around Thodupuzha — Idukki — Munnar road (TM Road) in Idukki district, Kerala, India has been carried out using geospatial techniques. Being a landslide prone area a hazard zonation is attempted using terrain fragility concept. Based on the traverse mapping, slide prone areas and palaeo-slides along the TM road were identified. Precambrian crystallines consisting of hornblende-biotite gneiss, biotite gneiss, granite gneiss, charnockite and pink granites form the main rock types. Factor maps of various terrain parameters such as slope, landuse, relative relief, drainage pattern, drainage density, landform, and surface material were prepared and their integration carried out on a GIS platform. Based on geospatial analyses, the study area (438 sq. km) is ranked into four classes of relative fragility viz. highly fragile (8.25 sq. km), fragile (41.25 sq. km), moderately fragile (232 sq. km) and stable (156.5 sq. km). The first two categories together form 11% of the area, the most hazardous regions, which require immediate mitigation measures for slope protection. The study forms a basis for evolving a strategy for the development of the entire TM road of Idukki district. The fragility concept used in this study is a fast and cost effective model for identifying landslide prone areas, especially in the Western Ghats.     

三维地质建模及可视化系统的设计与开发

三维地学模拟是三维地质信息GIS可视化的核心内容。基于基础GIS软件平台MAPGIS,利用功能强大的三维可视化开发平台MAPGIS-TDE,设计、开发具有自主版权的三维地质建模及可视化系统。MAPGIS-TDE包括MAPGIS内核模块、MAPGIS-TDE基础平台、MAPGIS-TDE构建平台和基于MAPGIS-TDE的应用系统等4个层次。基于MAPGIS-TDE的三维地质建模及可视化系统分为地质数据管理、二维地质分析、地质断面处理、地质结构建模和地质属性建模等5大功能模块。系统实现时,将空间数据库划分为基础地理图形库、区域地质数据库、工程地质数据库、水文地质数据库、地球物理数据库、地球化学数据库等6类。该系统不仅提供了强大的地质数据管理、三维地质建模以及模型的可视化功能,还为专业技术人员提供了一个可视化的分析、设计平台。     

Shallow landslides in pyroclastic soils: a distributed modelling approach for hazard assessment

An effective assessment of shallow landslide hazard requires spatially distributed modelling of triggering processes. This is possible by using physically based models that allow us to simulate the transient hydrological and geotechnical processes responsible for slope instability. Some simplifications are needed to address the lack of data and the difficulty of calibration over complex terrain at the catchment's scale. We applied two simple hydrological models, coupled with the infinite slope stability analysis, to the May 1998 landslide event in Sarno, Southern Italy. A quasi-dynamic model (Barling et al., 1994) was used to model the contribution to instability of lateral flow by simulating the time-dependent formation of a groundwater table in response to rainfall. A diffusion model [Water Resour. Res. 36 (2000) 1897] was used to model the role of vertical flux by simulating groundwater pressures that develop in response to heavy rainstorms. The quasi-dynamic model overestimated the slope instability over the whole area (more than 16%) but was able to predict correctly slope instability within zero order basins where landslides occurred and developed into large debris flows. The diffusion model simulated correctly the triggering time of more than 70% of landslides within an unstable area amounting to 7.3% of the study area. These results support the hypothesis that both vertical and lateral fluxes were responsible for landslide triggering during the Sarno event, and confirm the utility of such models as tools for hazard planning and land management.     

基于地质灾害危险性的煤层气项目经济评价

煤层气开发项目可能遭受煤矿采空区地面塌陷的威胁,项目不同开发部署方案产生不同的地质灾害危险性评估结果,进而具有不同的经济效益。介绍了在地面塌陷区部署开发井的3种方案,对各方案的地质灾害危险性作了评估和综合分区,计算了各方案、各分区的管输量、现金流量和利润,其中危险性大区和中等区的结果不同,方案1抽采的煤层气多,开发设施受损也多,经济效益不好;方案2开发设施损失少,抽采的煤层气也少,经济效益较好;方案3开发设施受损数量减少,能抽采较多煤层气,经济效益好。采用投资回收期进行危险性分区的方案3优点多,已被开发单位接受。     

废弃矿山植被恢复工程地质灾害危险性评估关键问题分析

系统论述了废弃矿山植被恢复工程地质灾害危险性评估的的工作内容、方法、评估范围等关键技术问题。文章提出废弃矿山植被恢复工程地质灾害危险性评估工作兼具地质灾害危险性评估和矿区地质工程环境条件评价的双重目的,为植被恢复工程建设提供必要的设计依据。分区、分段、分单元全方位地质灾害调查和综合评估是开展废弃矿山植被恢复工程地质灾害危险性评估的有效方法,最后分析和讨论了地质灾害危险性的现状评估、预测评估以及适宜性评估等关键问题。     

Seismic hazard assessment and mitigation in India: an overview

The Indian subcontinent is characterized by various tectonic units viz., Himalayan collision zone in North, Indo-Burmese arc in north-east, failed rift zones in its interior in Peninsular Indian shield and Andaman Sumatra trench in south-east Indian Territory. During the last about 100 years, the country has witnessed four great and several major earthquakes. Soon after the occurrence of the first great earthquake, the Shillong earthquake (M _w: 8.1) in 1897, efforts were started to assess the seismic hazard in the country. The first such attempt was made by Geological Survey of India in 1898 and since then considerable progress has been made. The current seismic zonation map prepared and published by Bureau of Indian Standards, broadly places seismic risk in different parts of the country in four major zones. However, this map is not sufficient for the assessment of area-specific seismic risks, necessitating detailed seismic zoning, that is, microzonation for earthquake disaster mitigation and management. Recently, seismic microzonation studies are being introduced in India, and the first level seismic microzonation has already been completed for selected urban centres including, Jabalpur, Guwahati, Delhi, Bangalore, Ahmadabad, Dehradun, etc. The maps prepared for these cities are being further refined on larger scales as per the requirements, and a plan has also been firmed up for taking up microzonation of 30 selected cities, which lie in seismic zones V and IV and have a population density of half a million. The paper highlights the efforts made in India so far towards seismic hazard assessment as well as the future road map for such studies.     

An InSAR and depth-integrated coupled model for potential landslide hazard assessment

Assessing the hazard of potential landslides is crucial for developing mitigation strategies for landslide disasters. However, accurate assessment of landslide hazard is limited by the lack of landslide inventory maps and difficulty in determining landslide run-out distance. To address these issues, this study developed a novel method combining the InSAR technique with a depth-integrated model. Within this new framework, potential landslides are identified through InSAR and their potential impact areas are subsequently estimated using the depth-integrated model. To evaluate its capability, the proposed method was applied to a landslide event that occurred on November 3, 2018 in Baige village, Tibet, China. The simulated results show that the area with a probability of more than 50% to be affected by landslides matched the real trimlines of the landslide and that the accuracy of the proposed method reached 85.65%. Furthermore, the main deposit characteristics, such as the location of maximum deposit thickness and the main deposit area, could be captured by the proposed method. Potential landslides in the Baige region were also identified and evaluated. The results indicate that in the event of landslides, the collapsed mass has a high probability to block the Jinsha River. It is therefore necessary to implement field monitoring and prepare hazard mitigation strategies in advance. This study provides new insights for regional-scale landslide hazard management and further contributes to the implementation of landslide risk assessment and reduction activities.

     

承灾体易损性评估模型与滑坡灾害风险度指标

承灾体易损性定量评估是制约滑坡灾害风险评估研究的瓶颈问题。为此,以滑坡体冲击冲量为致灾强度指标、建筑物整体抗剪力为抗灾性能指标,推导出典型承灾体易损性定量评估模型。在此基础上,考虑滑体运动特征参数随机性对易损性的影响,提出风险曲线和最大风险度指标的概念,以反映滑坡灾害成灾全过程中不确定性对灾害后果的影响。并采用该模型分析了坡体几何特征参数、受灾体空间位置以及受灾体抗灾性能对易损性的影响规律。将风险度指标应用于算例分析,并与以往方法进行了比较,分析发现,建立的易损性定量评估模型可以反映二维简化情况下受灾体毁损程度与各种影响因素之间关系的基本规律,为易损性定量评估提供了一种途径。     

城市地下空间三维地质模型可视化技术研究

目前,城市地下空间信息化发展面临着海量数据组织、管理和可视化显示等亟需解决的关键问题。本文顺应国家新型智慧城市建设趋势,提出并实现了城市地下空间三维地质模型可视化技术,构建地质三维模型分级数据,按照不规则四叉树结构形成LOD数据;基于构建的三维空间网格码规范编码,运用降维、非布尔运算的方法,实现最大精度化的地下空间模型数据无限逼近的融合;并采用多渲染引擎的混合渲染架构,支持DirectX、WebGL（OpenGL ES）、OSG（OpenGL）和游戏引擎（Unreal Engine）等多引擎渲染,实现TB级地下时空数据的真实感可视化与高效调度,为城市地下空间开发利用提供数据支持和辅助决策分析支撑。     

IFSAR-DEM在岩溶洼地探测中的应用——以薄荷省旁劳市沉降灾害评估为例

岩溶研究中,通常会使用高分辨率卫星图像和地理空间数据识别、描绘岩溶发育及相关地质灾害发生的地貌特征。本文旨在利用ArcGIS10.0确定干涉合成孔径雷达数字高程模型（IFSAR-DEM）识别、量化和描述岩溶洼地。这种半自动岩溶洼地/天坑探测方法采用水流模拟法,并结合（1）流域划分;（2）下沉填充法提取洼地特征;（3）下沉深度测量及分类;（4）使用2013年至2014年谷歌高光谱卫星图像和数字地形模型对探测到的岩溶洼地进行验证。该方法已在薄荷省旁劳市进行的评估中进行了预测试。使用国家测绘资源信息局（菲律宾）1991年的1:50 000比例尺地形图进行的初步封闭洼地分析,发现旁劳岛有15个天坑。利用5米高分辨率IFSAR-DEM,共探测到820个天坑,其中424个根据详细的地面实况进行了描绘,以验证了岩溶洼地的存在。地表实况包含天坑大小、形状和深度等基本形态测量分析以消除误报数据。阈值设定为沉降深度大于1米,孔径大于10米,从而最大程度精确区分实际的天坑。这种基于GIS的工具有助于生成高分辨率岩溶塌陷易发区图,继而指导当地规划者、工程师及决策者进行开发规划和土地利用。     

Integrated approach of geospatial visualization and modeling for groundwater management in hard rock terrains in Nagpur Urban Area,India

Groundwater management requires complete visualization of aquifer characteristics to understand scientific aspects and hence remains a challenge, especially in hard rock terrains. In the present research paper, a comprehensive approach using 3D stratigraphic model, fence diagrams and numerical modeling has been proposed to understand the groundwater status for effective recharge. The stratigraphy, groundwater flow, and groundwater fluctuations for the period 1999–2010 were analyzed. The total volume of formations, volume of voids, storage capacity, and quantities of recharge of unconfined aquifer system in the Nagpur urban area were estimated. The steady state groundwater flow model of Basalt formation was calibrated to evaluate the subsurface system using Processing Modflow (PMWIN 5.3.2). The calibrated hydraulic head is compared with field observed head. The comparative spatial analysis presents a simple integrated approach in identifying zones with falling groundwater trends suitable for groundwater recharge in hard rock terrain in Nagpur urban area.     

Assessment of equity principles for international climate policy based on an integrated assessment model

Natural Hazards - Defining an internationally equitable distribution of the burdens of reducing greenhouse gases has been one of core concerns for as long as climate policies have been debated....