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6 datasets found

  • Induced Rockfall Dataset #2 (Chant Sura Experimental Campaign), Flüelapass, Grisons, Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The data archive contains site specific geographical data such as DEM and orthophoto as well as the deposition points of manually induced rockfall by releasing differently shaped...

    Last updated: October 21, 2021

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    • SERVICE
    • rockfall-experiments
    • stonenode
    • induced-rockfall
    • natural-hazard
    • dem
    • stonenodedata
    • earth-surface-dynamics
    • rockfall-runout
    • rockfall
  • Rockfall gallery testing Parde 2016

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    Education, culture and sport

    Five full-scale field tests were conducted with concrete blocks weighting between 800 and 3200 kg being dropped onto the roof of a gallery structure made from reinforced concrete....

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

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    • rockfall-experiments
    • experiments
    • field-test
    • field-data
    • natural-hazard
    • rockfall
    • field-tests
    • mass-movements
    • impact-testing
    • experiment
  • Repetitive trajectory testing in Tschamut 2014

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In summer 2014, 6 rock blocks between 20 and 80kg have been thrown in total 111 times down a slope at the Swiss Oberalppass close to the village Tschamut. The slope was mainly...

    Last updated: February 16, 2022

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    • SERVICE
    • experiment
    • mass-movements
    • field-test
    • trajectory
    • natural-hazards
    • rockfall
    • experiments
    • field-data
    • field-tests
  • Shape still matters - experimental quantification of deadwood effects on rockfall dynamics

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    Education, culture and sport

    We conducted an experimental rockfall campaign on a forested slope with deadwood and on with the windthrown area cleared in Schiers (CH). Two different rock categories were used:...

    Last updated: August 14, 2023

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    • SERVICE
    • lying-deadwood
    • sensor-technology
    • breaking-energy
    • eota
    • stonenode
    • windthrow
    • protective-effect
    • rockfall-experiments
    • forest
    • dissipated-energy
    • rockfall
  • Induced Rockfall Dataset (Small Rock Experimental Campaign), Tschamut, Grisons, Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Dataset of an experimental campaign of induced rockfall in Tschamut, Grisons, Switzerland.

    The data archive contains site specific geographical data such as DEM and orthophoto...

    Last updated: October 27, 2020

    • SERVICE
    • ZIP
    • sensor-stream
    • stonenode
    • stonenodedata
    • induced-rockfall
    • natural-hazards
    • rockfall
    • rockfall-runout
    • dem
    • rockfall-experiments
    • deposition-points
  • Experimental rockfall trilogy of Surava

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We performed an experimental trilogy of induced rockfall experiments in a spruce stand in Surava (CH) within (i) the original forest, (ii) after a logging job, resulting in lying...

    Last updated: July 21, 2022

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    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • lying-deadwood
    • forest
    • gyroscope
    • rockfall
    • deposition-points
    • in-situ
    • acceleration
    • gnss
    • induced-rockfall