Landslides are a major class of disaster in [[equatorial mountain regions]].[^[[http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/landslide-deaths-much-higher-than-thought-study | "Landslide deaths much higher than thought - study"]], 15 Aug 2012, Reuters: "identified hotspots - among them [...] Indonesia and mountains from Mexico to Chile."^],[^[[http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/landslide-deaths-four-times-higher-than-thought | Landslide deaths 'four times higher than thought']], Reuters Alernet, 4 Sep 2012^] Better danger zone ''classification'' ("landslide susceptibility zonation") could help keep people out of the riskier areas. Better landslide ''prediction'' could save human lives and help preserve local economic capacity. Neither problem is easy, however. The ability to fly over the same point several times per day could make it possible to consider in more detail -- and in a more timely manner -- some factors that are currently neglected or underutilized:

Landslides are a major class of disaster in [[equatorial alpine regions]].[^[[http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/landslide-deaths-much-higher-than-thought-study | "Landslide deaths much higher than thought - study"]], 15 Aug 2012, Reuters: "identified hotspots - among them [...] Indonesia and mountains from Mexico to Chile."^],[^[[http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/landslide-deaths-four-times-higher-than-thought | Landslide deaths 'four times higher than thought']], Reuters Alernet, 4 Sep 2012^] Better danger zone ''classification'' ("landslide susceptibility zonation") could help keep people out of the riskier areas. Better landslide ''prediction'' could save human lives and help preserve local economic capacity. Neither problem is easy, however. The ability to fly over the same point several times per day could make it possible to consider in more detail -- and in a more timely manner -- some factors that are currently neglected or underutilized:

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* Ohlmacher, G (2003). [[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013795203000693 | "Using multiple logistic regression and GIS technology to predict landslide hazard in northeast Kansas, USA"]]. Engineering Geology 69 (3-4): 331. doi:10.1016/S0013-7952(03)00069-3

* Metternicht, G; Hurni, L; Gogu, R (2005). [[ http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425705002506 | "Remote sensing of landslides: An analysis of the potential contribution to geo-spatial systems for hazard assessment in mountainous environments"]]. Remote Sensing of Environment 98 (2�3): 284. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2005.08.004

* Ohlmacher, G (2003). [[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013795203000693 | "Using multiple logistic regression and GIS technology to predict landslide hazard in northeast Kansas, USA"]]. Engineering Geology 69 (3�4): 331. doi:10.1016/S0013-7952(03)00069-3

Hi Alejna --Am glad my photos heelpd make you see why this hike's a favorite! :)Hi sbk --You mean the cable car building in the sixth photo from the top, right? For that's the cable car terminus up on Ngong Ping (versus the cable car building in the fourth photo from the top that's just a midway point that you can't get off at).At the terminus up on Ngong Ping, you get deposited almost directly into the new/artificially created Ngong Ping "village", then you can go on a path that leads you within minutes to the Big Buddha and Po Lin Monastery.Hi W --I went closer to the Wisdom Path on a couple of other hikes but haven't ventured into the actual area.  It looks too touristy and crowded -- and it also looks as though the inscriptions are all in Chinese and no translations of them are provided in English.  Am I wrong about that?

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* local precipitation[^The potential for nanosatellies in monitoring heavy rainfall in the equatorial band is being explored in recent work, see e.g., [[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6185263 | "Nanosatellites for earth environmental monitoring: The MicroMAS project"]], Blackwell, W. et al. IEEE Xplore DOI 10.1109/MicroRad.2012.6185263 ISBN 978-1-4673-1468-8 in conf. proc of 2012 12th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment (MicroRad)^][^[[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_Radio_occultation | GPS Radio occultation]] could aid in determining precipitation severity even somewhat beyond equatorial latitudes, since GPS satellites occupy a wide range of orbits.^]

->"I have long believed that we do not influence the course of events by persuading people that we are right when we make what they regard as radical proposals. Rather, we exert influence by keeping options available when something has to be done in a time of crisis." -- Milton Friedman

* local precipitation[^The potential for nanosatellies in monitoring heavy rainfall in the equatorial band is being explored in recent work, see e.g., [[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6185263 | "Nanosatellites for earth environmental monitoring: The MicroMAS project"]], Blackwell, W. et al. IEEE Xplore DOI 10.1109/MicroRad.2012.6185263 ISBN 978-1-4673-1468-8 in conf. proc of 2012 12th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment (MicroRad)^]

Landslides are a major class of disaster in [[equatorial alpine regions]].[^[[http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/landslide-deaths-much-higher-than-thought-study | "Landslide deaths much higher than thought - study"]], 15 Aug 2012, Reuters: "identified hotspots - among them [...] Indonesia and mountains from Mexico to Chile."^] Better danger zone ''classification'' ("landslide susceptibility zonation") could help keep people out of the riskier areas. Better landslide ''prediction'' could save human lives and help preserve local economic capacity. Neither problem is easy, however. The ability to fly over the same point several times per day could make it possible to consider in more detail -- and in a more timely manner -- some factors that are currently neglected or underutilized:

* local precipitation

One of [[Project Persephone]]'s medium-term R&D activities is to support the launch of remote-sensing satellites into [[equatorial low Earth orbit]] (ELEO) for disaster warning, environmental monitoring and emergency communications. ELEO makes it possible to overfly the same point every 90 minutes, which might greatly improve on existing landslide prediction and disaster response in remote areas. Even [[Cubesat]]-size satellites might be able to detect changes in river water color that point to an increased likelihood of mountainside mud flows.[^See, e.g., [[http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/40010/ | Charybdis: The Next Generation in Ocean Colour and Biogeochemical Remote Sensing]], Christopher Lowe, Malcolm Macdonald, Steve Greenland, David Mckee, presented at Small Satellite Conference 2012^]

Landslides are a major class of disaster in [[equatorial alpine regions]].[^[[http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/landslide-deaths-much-higher-than-thought-study | "Landslide deaths much higher than thought - study"]], 15 Aug 2012, Reuters: "identified hotspots - among them [...] Indonesia and mountains from Mexico to Chile."^] Better danger zone ''classification'' ("landslide susceptibility zonation") could help keep people out of the riskier areas. Better landslide ''prediction'' could save human lives and help preserve local economic capacity. Neither problem is easy, however. The ability to fly over the same point several times per day could make it possible to consider in more detail some factors that are currently neglected or underutilized:

Landslides are a major class of disaster in [[equatorial alpine regions]].[^[[http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/landslide-deaths-much-higher-than-thought-study | "Landslide deaths much higher than thought - study"]], 15 Aug 2012, Reuters: "identified hotspots - among them [...] Indonesia and mountains from Mexico to Chile."^] Better danger zone classification ("landslide susceptibility zonation") could help keep people out of the riskier areas. Better landslide prediction could save human lives and help preserve local economic capacity. Neither problem is easy, however. The ability to fly over the same point several times per day could make it possible to consider in more detail some factors that are currently neglected or underutilized:

* herds of animals that could precipitate slides by grazing on unstable slopes

One of [[Project Persephone]]'s near-term activities is to support the launch of remote-sensing satellites into [[equatorial low Earth orbit]] (ELEO) for disaster warning, environmental monitoring and emergency communications. ELEO makes it possible to overfly the same point every 90 minutes, which might greatly improve on existing landslide prediction and disaster response in remote areas. Even [[Cubesat]]-size satellites might be able to detect changes in river water color that point to an increased likelihood of mountainside mud flows.[^See, e.g., [[http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/40010/ | Charybdis: The Next Generation in Ocean Colour and Biogeochemical Remote Sensing]], Christopher Lowe, Malcolm Macdonald, Steve Greenland, David Mckee, presented at Small Satellite Conference 2012^]

Landslides are a major class of disaster in [[equatorial alpine regions]].[^[[http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/landslide-deaths-much-higher-than-thought-study | "Landslide deaths much higher than thought - study"]], 15 Aug 2012, Reuters: "identified hotspots - among them [...] Indonesia and mountains from Mexico to Chile."^] Better danger zone classification ("landslide susceptibility zonation") could keep people out of the riskier areas. Better landslide prediction could save human lives and property. Neither problem is easy, however. The ability to fly over the same point several times per day could make it possible to consider in more detail some factors that are currently neglected or underutilized:

One of [[Project Persephone]]'s near-term activities is to support the launch of remote-sensing satellites into [[equatorial low Earth orbit]] (ELEO) for disaster warning, environmental monitoring and emergency communications. ELEO makes it possible to overfly the same point every 90 minutes, which might greatly improve on existing landslide prediction and disaster response in remote areas. Even [[Cubesat]]-size satellites might be able to detect changes in river water color that point to an increased likelihood of mountainside mud flows.[^See, e.g., [[Charybdis� � The Next Generation in Ocean Colour and Biogeochemical Remote Sensing^]], Christopher Lowe, Malcolm Macdonald, Steve Greenland, David Mckee, presented at Small Satellite Conference 2012^]

Landslides are a major class of disaster in [[equatorial alpine regions]]. Better danger zone classification ("landslide susceptibility zonation") could keep people out of the riskier areas. Better landslide prediction could save human lives and property. Neither problem is easy, however. The ability to fly over the same point several times per day could make it possible to consider in more detail some factors that are currently neglected or underutilized:

One of [[Project Persephone]]'s near-term activities is to support the launch of remote-sensing satellites into [[equatorial low Earth orbit]] (ELEO) for disaster warning, environmental monitoring and emergency communications. ELEO makes it possible to overfly the same point every 90 minutes, which might greatly improve on existing landslide prediction and disaster response in remote areas.

Landslides are a major class of disaster in [[equatorial alpine regions]]. Better landslide susceptibility zonation could keep people out of the more dangerous areas. Better landslide prediction could save human lives and property. The ability to fly over the same point several times per day could make it possible to consider in more detail some factors that are currently neglected or underutilized:

* Fabbri, Andrea G.; Chung, Chang-Jo F.; Cendrero, Antonio; Remondo, Juan (2003). "Is Prediction of Future Landslides Possible with a GIS?". Natural Hazards 30 (3): 487. doi:10.1023/B:NHAZ.0000007282.62071.75.

* Lee, S; Talib, Jasmi Abdul (2005). "Probabilistic landslide susceptibility and factor effect analysis". Environmental Geology 47 (7): 982. doi:10.1007/s00254-005-1228-z.

* Ohlmacher, G (2003). "Using multiple logistic regression and GIS technology to predict landslide hazard in northeast Kansas, USA". Engineering Geology 69 (3�4): 331. doi:10.1016/S0013-7952(03)00069-3

* De La Ville, Noemi; Chumaceiro Diaz, Alejandro; Ramirez, Denisse (2002). Environment, Development and Sustainability 4 (2): 221. doi:10.1023/A:1020835932757.

Clerici, A; Perego, S; Tellini, C; Vescovi, P (2002). [[http://md1.csa.com/partners/viewrecord.php?requester=gs&collection=ENV&recid=5524234&q=&uid=791026315&setcookie=yes | "A procedure for landslide susceptibility zonation by the conditional analysis method"]]. Geomorphology 48 (4): 349. doi:10.1016/S0169-555X(02)00079-X

Landslides are a major class of disaster in [[equatorial alpine regions]]. Better landslide susceptibility zonation could keep people out of the more dangerous areas. Better landslide prediction could human lives and property. The ability to fly over the same point several times per day could make it possible to consider in more detail some factors that are currently neglected or underutilized:

Landslides are a major class of disaster in [[equatorial alpine regions]]. For purposes of landslide prediction to save human lives and property, as well as for improved landslide susceptibility zonation, the ability to fly over the same point several times per day could make it possible to consider in more detail some factors that are currently neglected for lack of finer-grained data, or not considered at all:

One of [[Project Persephone]]'s near-term activities is to support the launch of satellites into [[equatorial low Earth orbit]] (ELEO) for disaster warning, environmental monitoring and emergency communications. ELEO makes it possible to overfly the same point every 90 minutes.

One of [[Project Persephone]]'s near-term activities is to support the launch of satellites into [[equatorial low Earth orbit]] (ELEO) for disaster warning, environmental monitoring and emergency communications. Some remote sensing problems become much easier if a given point on Earth can be closely monitored several times per day. ELEO makes it possible to overfly the same point every 90 minutes.

One of [[Project Persephone]]'s near-term activities is to support the launch of satellites into low equatorial orbit for disaster warning, environmental monitoring and emergency communications. There are a number of remote sensing problems that are made easier if a given point on Earth can be closely monitored several times per day. An equatorial low Earth orbit (ELEO) makes it possible to overfly the same point every 90 minutes.

Landslides are a major class of disaster in [[equatorial alpine regions]]. For purposes of landslide prediction to save human lives and property, as well as for improved landslide susceptibility zonation, the ability to fly over the same point as often as 16 times per day could make it possible to consider in more detail factors that are currently neglected for lack of finer-grained data, or not considered at all: