Geohazard Monitoring Group

19/01/2026

Call for papers!!! 📢

📢 Call for Papers

The Special Issue “Survey and Study of Rocky Coasts: From Risk Assessment to Land Planning Strategies“ is now open for submissions!

📌 This Special Issue aims to highlight recent advances that address these emerging challenges through developments in reverse time migration (RTM), least-squares migration, geophysical inverse theory (including seismic pre- and post-stack inversion), full waveform inversion (FWI) strategies, controlled source electromagnetics (CSEM) inversion, gravity method inversion, etc.

🧠 Guest Editors: Dr. Danilo Godone, Dr. Faccini Francesco, and Dr. Pierluigi Brandolini

📅 Submission Deadline: 31 October 2026

🔗 Submit here: https://brnw.ch/21wZcKK

26/12/2025

Il convegno sulle azioni strategiche in materia di conoscenza, comunicazione e formazione si svolge a Roma e è disponibile anche in streaming

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19/12/2025

Online il documento tecnico sul rischio glaciale e periglaciale in ambiente alpino.
Il documento, elaborato dal tavolo tecnico promosso dal Dipartimento Protezione Civile e appositamente costituito, è frutto del lavoro congiunto di soggetti di protezione civile, comunità scientifica, amministrazioni regionali e organizzazioni di settore operanti nell’arco alpino.
🔸individuazione ghiacciai a maggiore pericolosità
🔸comunicazione dei rischi
🔸formazione
Il contributo del CNR IRPI
👉 https://www.cnr.it/it/news/14030

Palazzo Chigi - Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri
CNR DTA Dipartimento Scienze del Sistema Terra e Tecnologie per l’Ambiente

28/11/2025

From sea to summit! GMG staff worked over two days while carrying out field activities. On the first day, they completed the periodic inclinometric monitoring of the Botanical Garden at the University of Genoa. The survey was done alongside a lecture for Earth Science students in the course "Pericolosità geo-idrologica e Protezione Civile" (Course holder: Prof. Francesco Faccini). The following day, the landscape—and the weather—changed noticeably. Maintenance and fine-tuning were carried out on the Robotized Inclinometric System installed the week before. When leaving the site, a funny, unexpected event blocked the road…have a look at the last pic!



CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche CNR DTA Dipartimento Scienze del Sistema Terra e Tecnologie per l’Ambiente CNR IRPI Scienze Geologiche - Corsi di Studio UniGe Orto Botanico di Genova Regione Valle d'Aosta

20/11/2025

PUBLICATION ALERT!!!
The Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) released a report titled “Shaping Resilience in Mountains - The Case for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure,” a global review examining the interaction between geohazards and infrastructure (roads, tunnels, airports, etc.). The analysis focuses on mountain regions worldwide, and it features various case studies, approaches, and solutions. Among them, check out the European example (see pages 64 - 67) contributed by GMG in collaboration with the Bolzano Autonomous Province - Torrent Control Functional Area - Civil Protection Agency, and the University of Innsbruck, Unit of Geotechnical Engineering. The report was unveiled at CDRI’s pavilion during COP30, in Belém, Brazil!!



CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche CNR DTA Dipartimento Scienze del Sistema Terra e Tecnologie per l’Ambiente CNR IRPI Provincia Bolzano Universität Innsbruck Mountain Partnership COP30 Brasil

The report is freely accessible here:

The Case for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure Mountains, covering 27% of Earth and home to 1.2 billion people, are vital for biodiversity and water security but face severe climate-induced hazards like floods, landslides, and glacial lake outburst floods. Their fragile ecosystems, remoteness, and l...

19/11/2025

The trio is complete!
Within the framework of the Deep-seated Gravitational Slope Deformation (DsGSD) monitoring project, funded by the Regional Government of Aosta Valley - Public Works, Land, and Environment Department, the last monitoring station has been installed, despite the snowfall. Now the configuration is complete, and the three Robotized Inclinometric Systems will provide high-frequency measurements of the investigated phenomena. The contemporary deployment of three long-range robotized inclinometers (tube length ~200 m) is a unique feature of this research activity and a scientific challenge for GMG!



CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche CNR DTA Dipartimento Scienze del Sistema Terra e Tecnologie per l’Ambiente CNR IRPI Regione Valle d'Aosta

More info:
DsGSD
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720338821
- https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/15/23/5440
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10346-023-02114-7
Robotized Inclinometric Systems
- https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/13/3769
- https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/15/13/3238

07/11/2025

PUBLISHED!!!
The article entitled “Application of Structure from Motion Techniques Using Historical Aerial Images, Orthomosaics, and Aerial LiDAR Point Cloud Datasets for the Investigation of Debris Flow Source Areas” is now freely available in the Remote Sensing journal. The research exploits the potentialities of the Structure from Motion to compute three-dimensional models of an alpine basin. Several sets of parameters (GCP number and placement, scanning resolution, co-registration...) are handled to determine the optimal processing approach. The models’ time series (~80 years) is then used for multitemporal comparisons aimed at long-term sediment dynamics analysis and hazard evaluation. The chance of taking advantage of archival/historical data to obtain, even if semi-quantitative, data is a key factor in data-scarce environments like mountain ranges.

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CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche CNR DTA Dipartimento Scienze del Sistema Terra e Tecnologie per l’Ambiente CNR IRPI Università degli Studi di Brescia Regione Lombardia Remote Sensing MDPI

More info:

Detecting topographic change in mountainous areas using historical aerial imagery is challenging due to complex terrain and variable data quality. This study evaluates the potential of Structure from Motion (SfM) for deriving 3D information from archival photograms in the Rabbia basin (Central Itali...

17/10/2025

Continuity of monitoring…after several years, due to the prolonged deformation, an inclinometric tube can go out of service. The tube shape hampers the probe passage, and the surveys need to be stopped. In cases of phenomena of particular interest, when the monitoring campaign must be maintained, the only option is to drill a new borehole in the closest location. This is what recently happened in our monitoring station in Val Passiria/Passeiertal (BZ), in cooperation with the “Mountain Basin” office of the Bolzano Autonomous Province, where, after the drilling, GMG staff relocated the Robotized Inclinometric System in the newly drilled inclinometric tube to maintain the 4-year monitoring campaign and displacement time series.



CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche CNR DTA Dipartimento Scienze del Sistema Terra e Tecnologie per l’Ambiente CNR IRPI Provincia Bolzano

More info:
• https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/13/3769
• https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU22/EGU22-7388.html
• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363896555_Monitoring_of_a_complex_large_scale_landslide_by_the_use_of_the_robotized_inclinometric_system_preliminary_results

10/10/2025

Recap of CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche participation at , including Dr. Danilo Godone's one at the “The avalanche disaster in Blatten” workshop. Have a look at the article in the CNR DTA Dipartimento Scienze del Sistema Terra e Tecnologie per l’Ambiente monthly newsletter: https://dta.cnr.it/2025/10/02/gld-imc2025/



CNR IRPI

Dal 14 al 18 settembre si è tenuta a Innsbruck la International Mountain Conference (IMC), la conferenza con cadenza triennale che porta al centro dell’attenzione questo peculiare ambiente: l’evento ha un carattere fortemente interdisciplinare, trattando molteplici aspetti delle terre alte e pr...

01/10/2025

GMG personnel completed the first two installations of “Robotized Inclinometric Systems” in the framework of Deep-seated Gravitational Slope Deformation (DsGSD) monitoring. The project aims to assess the deformation rates of the phenomena, ensuring a better comprehension of their kinematics, in view of hazard mitigation and future land planning of the involved areas. The project is funded by the Regional Government of Aosta Valley - Public Works, Land and Environment Department.


CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche CNR DTA Dipartimento Scienze del Sistema Terra e Tecnologie per l’Ambiente CNR IRPI Regione Valle d'Aosta

More info:
DsGSD
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720338821
- https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/15/23/5440
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10346-023-02114-7
Robotized Inclinometric Systems
- https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/13/3769
- https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/15/13/3238