Monitoring of the Beauregard landslide (Aosta Valley, Italy) using advanced and conventional techniques

Engineering Geology

Volumn 116, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 218-235

  Barla, G ^a   Antolini, F ^a   Barla, M ^a   Mensi, E ^a   Piovano, G ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beauregard dam; Deep seated gravitational slope deformation; Monitoring; Radar interferometry

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MONITORING; BEAUREGARD DAM; CIVIL PROTECTION; CONVENTIONAL MONITORING; CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES; DAM CONSTRUCTION; GAIN INSIGHT; GEOTECHNICAL INVESTIGATIONS; GROUND-BASED INSTRUMENTATION; HYDROGEOLOGICAL; LEFT ABUTMENT; MONITORING TECHNIQUES; MULTI-TEMPORAL; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR MONITORING; ROCK MASS; SHEAR ZONE; SLOPE DEFORMATION; SURFACE DEFORMATION; TIME SPAN; TOPOGRAPHIC MEASUREMENTS; TOTAL STATION;

ARCHES; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; DAMS; DEFORMATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LANDFORMS; LANDSLIDES; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SLOPE PROTECTION;

MONITORING;

DAM CONSTRUCTION; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; LANDSLIDE; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; ROCK MASS RESPONSE; SHEAR ZONE; SLOPE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ITALY; VALLE D'AOSTA;

EID: 78149407056     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2010.09.004     Document Type: Article

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