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Background

Landslides are one of the most severe natural disasters in the world and there are two types; rainfall induced landslides and landslides triggered by an earthquake triggering. In China, Korea, and Japan, landslides frequently happen with heavy rainfall and make many losses of lives, houses, roads, railways, and lifelines such as power, gas, water, etc. Therefore, the project on “Development of Early Warning System for Landslide Using Hydrological, Geotechnical, Geological, and Electromagnetic Approaches Ehas been accepted by Japan(JST)-China(DOIC)-Korea(NRF) Cooperative Research Projects "Disaster Prevention". In this proposal, basic study on early warning system for landslides will be investigated to understand landslide process through hydrological and electromagnetic changes. The final goal of the project is to develop a simple methodology for landslide monitoring/forecasting using self potential method in the frame work of joint research among China, Korea, and Japan.
The proposed project is developing a new scientific and technical methodology for prevention of natural soil disasters. The outline of the project is as follows; (1) basic understanding on the relationship between registivity distribution and moisture in soil and their visualization of their dynamical changes in space and time using tomography technique, (2) laboratory experiments of rainfall induced landslides and sandbox for practical use of the basic understanding, (3) in-situ experiments in China, Korea, and Japan for evaluation. In consideration above, integration of geological, hydrological, geotechnical characteristics with electromagnetic one are essential. Furthermore, systematic procedure will be taken such as differences in soil and mean radii of soils.
The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussion and exchange of different experiences in the science of landslide processes in China, Korea and Japan.

Scope

  • Geotechnical phenomena on landslide processes
  • Hydrological phenomena on landslide processes
  • Electromagnetic phenomena on landslide processes
  • Geological phenomena on landslide processes
  • Development of early warning system for rainfall-induced landslides
  • International cooperation on the fields of validation, modeling, and observation of landslide.

Venue

The workshop will be held at Nishi-Chiba Campus, Chiba University, Japan on March 24-25, 2010. Excursion to Tsukuba (Indoor experiment system) is planned on March 26.

http://www.chiba-u.ac.jp/e/about/map_addr/trans-map.html

http://www.chiba-u.ac.jp/e/about/map_addr/nishi-chiba.html

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Participant & Registration

Participants of the workshop will be scientists and students interested in this field. Persons who are from the industry are also welcome. All participants are subject to register in advance to the Chairman of the workshop through e-mail or fax as written in the following. Invited talks and contributed papers will be presented in the workshop. This workshop is free of charge.

Abstract Submission and Deadline

The abstract of the paper (A4 1 page) should be submitted to the following address in the PDF or MS-Word format until March10, 2010.

VISA

Participant who needs VISA sends an email to for invitation letter.

Sponsor

Organization committee welcomes sponsors and contributors to support the workshop. We would like to acknowledge and thank all sponsors who have generously provided support to the workshop.

Organizing Committee

Chair person
Katsumi Hattori (Chiba University, Japan)
Co-chair person
Qinghua Huang (Peking University, China)
Byung-Gon Chae (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM), Korea)