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Steven Williamson
Maunsell Aecom
A Practical Guide to Natural Terrain Hazard Studies A Practitioners Perspective 10 January 2009
Field Mapping
Introduction
Purpose
Scope
Site Reconnaissance
Detailed Mapping Approaches
Difficulties and problems
Summary
A Practical Guide to Natural Terrain Hazard Studies A Practitioners Perspective 10 January 2009
Landslide
Drainage lines
Depressions
Breaks in slope
Regolith
vegetation
A Practical Guide to Natural Terrain Hazard Studies A Practitioners Perspective 10 January 2009
A Practical Guide to Natural Terrain Hazard Studies A Practitioners Perspective 10 January 2009
Area or Regional
NTHS
Field
Reconnaissance
Detailed Field
mapping
Design verification
mapping
INITIAL
SCREENING
To be carried out in
accordance with Section
1.5 of GEO Report No.
138
Study
Required
?
No
Hazard
Severe
IN-PRINCIPLE
OBJECTION
SITE PLANNING
STAGE
Yes
REVIEW
(NTHR)
Field
Reconnaissance
FEASIBILITY
STAGE
Further
Study
Required
?
No
Yes
Natural Terrain
Hazard Study
(NTHS)
Detailed
ASSESSMENT
(NTHA)
Field Mapping
Mitigation
Measures
Required
?
No
ASSESSMENT
STAGE
Yes
A Practical Guide to Natural Terrain Hazard Studies A Practitioners Perspective 10 January 2009
Overview of (whole)
site and adjacent
study area
Use best available
vantage point, e.g.:
Building
Access to roof
Ridge line
Spurline
Roads and
footpaths
MITIGATION
STRATEGY (NTHM)
DESIGN
STAGE
A Practical Guide to Natural Terrain Hazard Studies A Practitioners Perspective 10 January 2009
Traverse upslope
boundary of
catchment/study area.
:look for processes that may
affect the site such as thick
colluvial lobes exposed in
stream courses or in small
cuts along the site boundary,
or boulder clusters
May give some indication to
potential magnitude and
frequency of landslide events
A Practical Guide to Natural Terrain Hazard Studies A Practitioners Perspective 10 January 2009
A Practical Guide to Natural Terrain Hazard Studies A Practitioners Perspective 10 January 2009
-Use of 3D plans to
visualize terrain and
processes, to give feel for
setting whilst mapping . .
may be overlain with
recent ortho photos to
enhance reading of
terrain -
A Practical Guide to Natural Terrain Hazard Studies A Practitioners Perspective 10 January 2009
A Practical Guide to Natural Terrain Hazard Studies A Practitioners Perspective 10 January 2009
from API ,
survey points or
distinctive landforms
-Use of machete
-Limited vegetation
clearance to access
key features
-Use of safety ropes
A Practical Guide to Natural Terrain Hazard Studies A Practitioners Perspective 10 January 2009
Cliff
area
Erosion
of
colluvium
and
saprolite
Source
60
Ephemeral
drainage
line
Colluvial lobe
with large,
undercut
boulders
45
Debris
transported
over colluvium
and saprolite
Steep rock
slope
sheeting
joint
controlled
granite slabs
A Practical Guide to Natural Terrain Hazard Studies A Practitioners Perspective 10 January 2009
A Practical Guide to Natural Terrain Hazard Studies A Practitioners Perspective 10 January 2009
A Practical Guide to Natural Terrain Hazard Studies A Practitioners Perspective 10 January 2009
of survey rod
-Clinometer
-Laser
distance
measurer
-Reel tape
-Hip Chain
A Practical Guide to Natural Terrain Hazard Studies A Practitioners Perspective 10 January 2009
1993
About 40
squatter
structures within
the September 1
2001 Lei Pui St
debris flow path !
Debris trail
A Practical Guide to Natural Terrain Hazard Studies A Practitioners Perspective 10 January 2009
100 mm
Sandy
infilling
Fractured moderately
decomposed granite rock
mass adjacent to sheeting
joint surfaces
A Practical Guide to Natural Terrain Hazard Studies A Practitioners Perspective 10 January 2009
Eroded edge of
colluvial lobe
Granite bedrock
Abraded Saprolite
Colluvial Accumulations
Debris transported
over colluvial lobe
A Practical Guide to Natural Terrain Hazard Studies A Practitioners Perspective 10 January 2009
- Distance measurement
Hip Chain
Laser Distance Measurer
- Difficult access/dense
vegetation
Machette
Walking Rope
A Practical Guide to Natural Terrain Hazard Studies A Practitioners Perspective 10 January 2009
Practical Issues
-Summer heat
clothes, water,
time of day
-Access
-Flora and fauna
A Practical Guide to Natural Terrain Hazard Studies A Practitioners Perspective 10 January 2009
Thank You