Geo-Monitoring

Principles of point-wise and area-wise monitoring sensors and monitoring tasks; Network and deformation analysis; Distinguish between relative and absolute deformations; Develop and apply area-wise deformation analyses.

• Monitoring networks and point determination
• Inclination measurements
• Hydrostatical levelling
• Alignement
• Plumbing methods
• Fibre optic systems, gauges and extensometers
• Terrestrial Laser Scanning: measurement process, registration, geo-referencing, error sources, accuracy
• Overview of other 3D monitoring methods
• Deformation analysis using the congruency model: two- and multi-epoch comparison, global test and localization
• Area-wise deformation analysis approaches