The PhD student Manuel Jesus Royan, from RISKNAT Group (University of Barcelona) is going to visit our institute for 10 days, from 4 to 13 November 2013. We will collaborate on the study of rockfall precursory indicators. The interest of this part of his research is on analysing how certain predisposing factors as fractures can be linked with the existence of small scale rockfalls.
We will validate this hypothesis with a long term TLS monitoring dataset at Puigcercos cliff (Catalonia, Spain). More information available here: Royan M.J., Abellán, A., Jaboyedoff, M., Vilaplana, J.M.., Calvet, J. (in press). Spatio-temporal distribution of rockfall pre-failure deformation using terrestrial LiDAR. Landslides