Quanterra organization and schedule

 

• Formal Creation of the foundation Quanterra in 6 August 2003 (Statutes)
• Preparation of FNRS project during Autumn 2003 and Winter 2004
• Current project
  • Structural and morphological using DEM in collaboration with the Geological Survey of Canada
  • Method to define quickly rock falls prone area using DEM (Conefall program)
  • Uplift analysis
  • Web site creation
  • Subcontractor for organization and private companies
  • Initiating new topics for congress sessions EGS 2004l):

    • Terrain analysis using DTM and landslides
      Terrain analysis is one of the new challenges of the hazard assessment, knowing the rapid increase in availability and in precision of DTM. Geology plays a great role on geomorphology, a fine analysis of DTM permits to outline the structure and geology of a poorly known region and also to systematically analyze known regions. Several landslide and erosion areas can be detected by simple or more sophisticated DTM analysis. Modelling of landslides and erosion processes are dependent on the DTM quality. This is a basic challenge for the future research of erosion processes study and hazard assessment.

    • Modelling landslides as part of erosive processes
      Landslides are part of the erosion processes. Quantification of erosion is important, because its understanding as part of geodynamics has a great importance for hazard assessment. The relationships of particular geodynamic contexts give information on the velocity of the erosive processes. Thus the questions are: where are located preferentially the landslides? And what are the importance of the mass flux ratio down to the sea level (or below) of the landslides versus others erosive processes.