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Laboratory Details
Poggio Baldi Field Laboratory
The Poggio Baldi laboratory is an experimental and permanent natural monitoring site for the homonymous landslide. The lab is managed by the Department of Earth Sciences of the Sapienza University of Rome and it is framed in the project “Dipartimento di Eccellenza per le Scienze della Terra” (Sapienza University of Rome – Years 2018-2022) funded by MIUR. The lab is also supported by NHAZCA Srl, start-up of the Sapienza University. The lab employs the most advanced remote sensing tools in order to monitor the activity of the main rock scarp, which is often source of rockfalls, and the related debris talus at the toe. The permanent lab officially starts on 26 October 2021 with the installation of a fully-fledged, energy-indipendet wooden structure that allow the continuous monitoring 24 hours a day, remotely accessible and manageable. The first monitoring activities date back to April 2015, when short-term geomorphological monitoring campaigns were initiated by the Department of Earth Science of Sapienza University with an annual basis. Over time, the lab has been supplied with more instruments as well as partners and sponsors who find the natural laboratory of the Poggio Baldi landslide the ideal place to test their experimental instruments for landslide assessment and monitoring. Since 2015 at the Poggio Baldi Experimental Site, many researchers and leading companies in the production of geotechnical and geomatic monitoring instrumentation have been meeting annually with the technical and scientific community for live, in-field demonstrations of their technologies. Moreover, in the Poggio Baldi area a large number of surveys and investigations have been carried out using modern remote sensing techniques, in order to acquire as much information as possible about the the active gravitational processes. Specifically, the activities carried out were as follows:
• multi-temporal and multi-station surveys with Terrestrial Laser Scanner (TLS); • surveys by Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS); • photogrammetric surveys by SAPR platform (Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems); • Gigapixel surveys by robotic head for camera; • monitoring by Terrestrial SAR Interferometry (TInSAR).
With the establishment of the permanent monitoring site, the lab is now completely autonomous in terms of energy supply and data acquisition. To date, the lab provide acoustic measurements, optical images every 10 minutes, doppler radar data and meteorological data.
Domain
Geo-energy test beds
Organization name
Sapienza University of Rome
Address
47018
Santa Sofia (FC)
Italy