Just under two weeks left to submit abstracts to the 7th World Landslide Forum (WLF7), to be held in India in November 2026.
I’d like to draw attention to a couple of #InSAR #DRR sessions that may be of interest:
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Svalbard’s cultural heritage and infrastructure face increasing risks as climate change accelerates permafrost thaw and ground instability. Partner story by the Fram Centre
Session 2.1 focuses on advances in landslide detection and monitoring using Earth Observation.
There’s room here for a wide range of approaches—InSAR, optical, data fusion, ML, early warning, etc.
If you’re working on methods or applications, this is a good fit.
And this is exactly why we need global ground motion services. Large, slow-moving slope systems don’t respect borders — and millimetre-scale deformation beneath real communities demands systematic, open, long-term #InSAR monitoring at continental to global scale. #DRR
The Leo Pargil DSGSD isn’t just remote alpine terrain. ~1,000+ people live within or directly on the deforming slope system (Nako, Malling, Liyo), and NH-505 crosses it. Millimetres per year — beneath real villages and a critical Himalayan lifeline.
I have a joke about InSAR but it's only funny after unwrapping.
Examples are very welcome—but so are contributions that highlight gaps.
Where would a sustained, open ground motion service make a real difference?
Where are we still missing coverage, continuity, or access?
That’s very much part of the discussion we hope to have.
Nice summary of our new #InSAR Svalbard service by the Norwegian Space Agency (in Norwegian). Still just five pilot areas but we are scaling up to the full territory over the next years. romdirektoratet.no/aktuelt/insa...
I’d especially like to highlight Session 2.2.
This session steps back a bit and looks at the bigger picture:
Do we need continental or even global #InSAR - based ground motion services to support disaster risk reduction? (Answer is YES).
This is a big one, literally. New paper out in Geomorphology: we use multi-geometry Sentinel-1 InSAR to unravel the internal kinematic segmentation of a 55 km² deep-seated landslide in the NW Himalaya. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #DRR #InSAR #Sentinel-1 #landslide
