U.S. Department of Homeland Security

06/24/2024 | Press release | Archived content

Remote Sensing for Geohazard Resilience Fact Sheet

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The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate, in coordination with Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, aims to create a comprehensive landslide event inventory, identify actively deforming hillslopes and develop novel methods to predict hillslope deformations, and monitor hillslope deformations prone to landslides over the entirety of any earthquake-affected area.