A paper from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s AmritaWNA center, Amritapuri campus was recently accepted for publication in Landslide journal.

Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh, Director of AmritaWNA and Dr. Nirmala Vasudevan is the co-author of this research paper titled “The Deployment of Deep-earth Sensor Probes for Landslide Detection”.

Abstract:
In this paper, we present a state-of-the-art wireless sensor network (WSN) of deep-earth probes (DEPs) that has been deployed to monitor an active landslide in the Western Ghats mountain range of South India. While India has one of the highest incidences of landslides and landslide-induced fatalities-primarily in the Himalayas of North India and in the Western Ghats of Central and South India-our study is perhaps the first comprehensive attempt to instrumentally detect landslides in the Western Ghats. We present the salient aspects of the field deployment of DEPs: the selection of sensors and their incorporation in DEPs, the methodology we used in embedding these DEPs into the soil, and a few of the key aspects of the wireless sensor network. We also present a description of the deployment site and some of the results of geotechnical investigations carried out on borehole corings. Finally, we present the more interesting field data collected from the monitoring system during a rainy season in July and August 2009.

SEE ALSO : http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10346-011-0300-x

November 3, 2012
Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA), Amritapuri