Landslide warnings from satellites may save lives
...re devastating, and frequently lethal. "In Italy, landslides have claimed an average of 54 victims per year dur...s. The total cost of direct damage done by Italian landslides is estimated at between one and two thousand million Euro per year." Very gradual ground shifts are...Envisat Symposium day one: Steady symphony of Europe's largest satellite
...und deformation around the Mount Etna volcano, and landslides on one road into Salzburg. The opening session concluded, the real work of the Symposium begins on Tuesday, as researchers reveal what uses they are making of the results revealed by Envisat return here tomorrow for another report.......igh risk of landslides, and over 20 000 individual landslides have been recorded. Italy's combination of geogra...n Kobe, Japan the country with the highest rate of landslides in the world....