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Landslide detection and monitoring capability of boat-based mobile laser scanning along Dieppe coastal cliffs, Normandy

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Integrated in a wide research assessing destabilizing and triggering factors to model cliff dynamic along the Dieppe’s shoreline in High Normandy, this study aims at testing boat-based mobile LiDAR capabilities by scanning 3D point clouds of the unstable coastal cliffs. Two acquisition campaigns were performed in September 2012 and September 2013, scanning (1) a 30-km-long shoreline and (2) the same test cliffs in different environmental conditions and device settings. The potentials of collected data for 3D modelling, change detection and landslide monitoring were afterward assessed. By scanning during favourable meteorological and marine conditions and close to the coast, mobile LiDAR devices are able to quickly scan a long shoreline with median point spacing up to 10 cm. The acquired data are then sufficiently detailed to map geomorphological features smaller than 0.5 m2. Furthermore, our capability to detect rockfalls and erosion deposits (>m3) is confirmed, since using the classical approach of computing differences between sequential acquisitions reveals many cliff collapses between Pourville and Quiberville and only sparse changes between Dieppe and Belleville-sur-Mer. These different change rates result from different rockfall susceptibilities. Finally, we also confirmed the capability of the boat-based mobile LiDAR technique to monitor single large changes, characterizing the Dieppe landslide geometry with two main active scarps, retrogression up to 40 m and about 100,000 m3 of eroded materials.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Antonio Abellán and Pierrick Nicolet for the appreciated and constructive discussions that significantly supported this study. TLS point clouds of the Cap d’Ailly and Puys sites were also acquired by Emmanuel Augereau and Réjanne Le Bivic. This research was supported by (1) the Swiss National Research Foundation under project FNS-1440404 entitled “Characterizing and analysing 3D temporal slope evolution” and (2) the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Insular Coastal Dynamics & the European Center on Geomorphological Hazards coordinated programme “Coupling terrestrial and marine datasets for coastal hazard assessment and risk reduction in changing environments” funded by the EUR-OPA Major Hazard Agreement of the Council of Europe (2012–2013). An anonymous referee helped us to improve this technical note thanks to pertinent remarks and suggestions. Finally, Alban Legardien, the Aillot’s Captain, is warmly acknowledged for being a great host and his professionalism during acquisition campaigns.

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  1. Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Clément Michoud, Dario Carrea, Marc-Henri Derron & Michel Jaboyedoff

  2. LETG-CAEN GEOPHEN, Universit de Caen Basse-Normandie, Caen, France

    Stéphane Costa, Olivier Maquaire, Pauline Letortu & Robert Davidson

  3. LDO, UMR 6538, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France

    Christophe Delacourt

  4. Terr@num, 35bis rue de l’industrie, Bussigny, Switzerland

    Clément Michoud

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Michoud, C., Carrea, D., Costa, S. et al. Landslide detection and monitoring capability of boat-based mobile laser scanning along Dieppe coastal cliffs, Normandy. Landslides 12, 403–418 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-014-0542-5

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