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STEEP SLOPE STABILITY MONITORING USING SATELLITE POSITIONING SYSTEMS
Investigators
A/Professor Mike Stewart
Mr Troy Forward
Dr Maria Tsakiri, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
A/Professor Xiaoli Ding, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Mr Minghai Jia, National Mapping Division, Geoscience Australia
Funding Sources
Australian Research Council
International Postgraduate Research Scholarship
Division of Engineering anmd Science Postgraduate Scholarship
Status
Started 1998, ongoing
Summary
Stability of steep slopes is of importance in Australia, in terms of safety to both the general
public and industry. For example, in open-pit mines, the adoption of steep-walled pit designs to
reduce the volume of waste material to be mined is accompanied by frequent pit wall failures, whereas
limited technological slope monitoring capability can endanger the public, as illustrated by the 1996
Bunbury cliff failure. This project aims to develop a system to facilitate the rapid and relatively
cheep monitoring of potentially unstable slopes, such as pit walls, earth\rock slopes and dam walls using
global satellite positioning technology.
Results
For a short presentation
on the use of Steep Slope Stability Monitoring using Integrated Satellite Positioning Systems
by
Troy Forward.
A more recent presentation
given to the Ground Control Group of Western Australia including ,
by
Troy Forward and Nigel Penna.
References
Forward, T. (1999) Implementation Issues of an Integrated Satellite-Based
Monitoring System for Open-Pit Mine Walls, Proceedings of the 6th South
East Asian Surveyors Congress, Fremantle, Western Australia,
Nov 1-6 pp. 26-36
To view a copy of this paper in Adobe PDF format click
here.
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