Beyond 3-D: The new spectrum of lidar applications for earth and ecological sciences

JUH Eitel, B Höfle, LA Vierling, A Abellán… - Remote Sensing of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Capturing and quantifying the world in three dimensions (x, y, z) using light detection and
ranging (lidar) technology drives fundamental advances in the Earth and Ecological …

Remote sensing for landslide investigations: An overview of recent achievements and perspectives

M Scaioni, L Longoni, V Melillo, M Papini - Remote Sensing, 2014 - mdpi.com
Landslides represent major natural hazards, which cause every year significant loss of lives
and damages to buildings, properties and lifelines. In the last decades, a significant increase …

3D terrestrial lidar data classification of complex natural scenes using a multi-scale dimensionality criterion: Applications in geomorphology

N Brodu, D Lague - ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing, 2012 - Elsevier
3D point clouds of natural environments relevant to problems in geomorphology (rivers,
coastal environments, cliffs,…) often require classification of the data into elementary …

Review of Earth science research using terrestrial laser scanning

J Telling, A Lyda, P Hartzell, C Glennie - Earth-Science Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
The application of advanced remote sensing technologies, including terrestrial laser
scanning (TLS), to the Earth sciences has increased rapidly in the last two decades …

Terrestrial laser scanning of rock slope instabilities

A Abellán, T Oppikofer, M Jaboyedoff… - Earth surface …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This manuscript presents a review on the application of a remote sensing technique
(terrestrial laser scanning, TLS) to a well‐known topic (rock slope characterization and …

Why permafrost rocks become unstable: a rock–ice‐mechanical model in time and space

M Krautblatter, D Funk… - Earth Surface Processes …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we develop a mechanical model that relates the destabilization of thawing
permafrost rock slopes to temperature‐related effects on both, rock‐and ice‐mechanics; and …

Contemporary glacier retreat triggers a rapid landslide response, Great Aletsch Glacier, Switzerland

A Kos, F Amann, T Strozzi, R Delaloye… - Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The destabilization and catastrophic failure of landslides triggered by retreating glaciers is
an expected outcome of global climate change and poses a significant threat to inhabitants …

Current glacier recession causes significant rockfall increase: the immediate paraglacial response of deglaciating cirque walls

I Hartmeyer, R Delleske, M Keuschnig… - Earth Surface …, 2020 - esurf.copernicus.org
In the European Alps almost half the glacier volume disappeared over the past 150 years.
The loss is reflected in glacier retreat and ice surface lowering even at high altitude. In steep …

Temperature‐calibrated imaging of seasonal changes in permafrost rock walls by quantitative electrical resistivity tomography (Zugspitze, German/Austrian Alps)

M Krautblatter, S Verleysdonk… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Changes of rock and ice temperature inside permafrost rock walls crucially affect their
stability. Permafrost rocks at the Zugspitze were involved in a 0.3–0.4 km3 rockfall at 3.7 ka …

LiDAR remote sensing of the cryosphere: Present applications and future prospects

A Bhardwaj, L Sam, A Bhardwaj… - Remote Sensing of …, 2016 - Elsevier
The cryosphere consists of frozen water and includes lakes/rivers/sea ice, glaciers, ice
caps/sheets, snow cover, and permafrost. Because highly reflective snow and ice are the …