Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Land@Slide team received valuable user feedback on web service

A user/validation workshop, organised by the Land@Slide project team, was successfully held at our department on May 24. The workshop aimed to bring together experts from regional and national authorities from Austria and Germany such as the Geological Survey of Austria (GBA), the Austrian Service for Torrent
and Avalanche Control (WLV) or the Bavarian Environment Agency (LfU). The experts require information on landslides for rapid mapping, documentation and monitoring purposes for managing related damages and risks.

A major objective of the workshop was to present, demonstrate and evaluate the pre-operational landslide platform and web mapping service which is developed within the Land@Slide project. The users had the opportunity to test the web service during interactive sessions. Their provided feedback on its functionality, usability and performance is of high value for improving the service. Participants also had a fruitful discussion on the potential of Earth Observation data and methods for landslide mapping. The workshop concluded with an investigation of the opportunities for developing the project outcome into an operational landslide web service.

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Contact: Daniel Hölbling

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