Hazard situation

Landslide monitoring

The monitoring of endangered slopes is one possible measure for providing protection against landslides. The FOEN uses the very latest methods for monitoring slopes, for example radar interferometry. This enables the identification of sliding masses and the magnitude of the sliding motion.

Permafrost monitoring

Intensive research on permafrost in the mountains has only been carried out for a few decades. Switzerland is currently participating in various projects which estimate and observe the occurrence of permafrost, inter alia in the Swiss permafrost monitoring network PERMOS.
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