Disaster Risk Reduction, Hazard Assesment, and Risk Analysis
by Pierrick Nicolet, Marc Choffet, Marc-Henri Derron, Michel Jaboyedoff and Bertrand Lauraux: “Evaporite sinkhole risk for a building portfolio” Karst-related hazard can be a problem for buildings, especially in the …
New publication in Environmental Earth Sciences about sinkhole-related risk Read MorePierrick Nicolet defended publicly on the 9th of January his PhD entitled “Quantitative risk analysis for natural hazards at local and regional scales”. The thesis aims at improving the quantification …
Thesis on risk analysis available for download Read MoreA prototype using open-source WebGIS technologies has been implemented to make data on hazard impacts, such as damaged infrastructure, landslides or flooding events available to authorities and the general public. …
Rapid Offline-Online Landslide Mapping tool (ROOl Map) Read MoreThe swiss Intercantonal Reinsurance (VKF/UIR) published a report on a hail event which occurred in Northern Switzerland in 2011. This report has been written in collaboration with our group. The study …
Publication of a report on a hail event Read MoreWe have been invited for edit a special issue at Remote Sensing journal entitled: “Use of LiDAR and 3D point clouds in Geohazards” Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2015 …
Special Issue “Use of LiDAR and 3D point clouds in Geohazards” Read MoreA few days ago we received a phone call from the New York Times graphics editor Derek Watkins who was preparing an article on a team of two American rock-climbers …
3D point clouds in the media Read MoreGood news! The number of citations that we are receiving concerning Natural Hazards related journals is considerably increasing… For the past five years we have had the 2nd most cited …
On the impact of our research in Natural Hazards journals Read MoreA new approach for semi-automatic rock mass joints recognition from 3D point clouds Riquelme, A., Abellan, A., Tomás, R., Jaboyedoff, M (2014). A new approach for semi-automatic rock mass joints …
New publication in Computer and Geosciences Read Moreby Pierrick Nicolet, Loris Foresti, Olivier Caspar and Michel Jaboyedoff: “Shallow landslide’s stochastic risk modelling based on the precipitation event of August 2005 in Switzerland: results and implications” Due to …
New publication in NHESS about landslide risk modeling Read MoreTo celebrate the publication of a book on natural hazards in Switzerland, a conference entitled “Meteorites: from genesis to catastrophe” will be held at the University of Lausanne (Géopolis, room …
“Les météorites : de la genèse aux catastrophes” Conference by Prof. Ph. Gillet, EPFL (in French) Read More