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BEDROCK RIVERS

TERROIRS VITICOLES

VOLCANOES

Chair: Prof. Hans Kienholz
Bern (Switzerland)
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The scientific goal is to find out and to show how mountain disasters can be described and documented in a most effective way. The documentation of important forms and traces of processes, performed immediately after a disaster, must enable a rough classification of the event and provide basic information for safety concepts and/or for detailed investigations. The scientific goal of DOMODIS is to show the procedures, the relevant parameters, the criteria, etc. for the following actions of "real-time/just-post-eventum" data collection:

• reconnaissance;
• air photography;
• documentation of the geomorphic processes in the terrain;
• documentation of the meteorological conditions;
• reconstruction and analysis of the most important processes, that were responsible for the disaster;
• general assessment.

The project DOMODIS aims for a general improvement of procedures and tools for documentation, finally for better data bases for further hazard assessment (=scientific/technical task). Strongly related to this goal are the improvement and the implementation of adequate organizational structures (implementation task). There will be a concentration to mountain hazards such as landslides, mountain torrents (including debris flows), and, not necessarily but eventually sensibly, snow avalanches. Even if in many cases such events occur simultaneously within a given region (for example some hundreds km2) the geomorphic processes involved are to be considered as a cluster of many single events. Therefore, the tools of "real-time/just-post-eventum" data collection, shall focus on processes that affect only small areas (like single slopes or catchment areas). Because these data are considered as to be an important basis for land use planning (for example hazard zoning) on local or province level and/or for biological or technical mitigation measures, the data gathering must be done on the terrain in very detailed manner. To illustrate the aspired degree of details, mapping of silent witnesses usually must be done at scales of 1:10000 to 1:25000 or even at larger scales ! Although the project DOMODIS admittedly concentrates on backward oriented methods (documentation post eventum), its final goal is to provide better data for the forward directed approaches: As better the documentation about and the experience from real events is, as better we know what to observe in the terrain and how to construct models.

The 5th DOMODIS Meeting 14th-18th October 2002 in Matsumoto, Nagano Pref., Japan

INVITATION
You are invited for participation at the 5th DOMODIS meeting, and of course we recommend emphatically to participate at INTERPRAEVENT 2002. The 5th DOMODIS meeting will be organized in close context to the International Congress INTERPRAEVENT 2002 in the Pacific Rim, 14th-18th October 2002 in Matsumoto, Nagano Pref., Japan.

We accept gratefully the opportunity offered by the Organizing Committee of INTER-PRAEVENT 2002 and provided by Prof. Dr. Aritsune Takei (chairman), by Prof. Dr. Hideaki Marui (secretary general), and the following contact persons, Dr. Takahisa Mizuyama, Prof. Dr. Kyoji Sassa, and Dr. Kazuo Okunishi.

More on the INTERPRAEVENT 2002 Website

Prof. Dr. Hans Kienholz
University of Berne
Dept. of Geography
Hallerstrasse 12
CH-3012 Berne
Switzerland
phones: +31-6318884 or +31-3729031
e-mail

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