Abstract. Studying how deadwood mitigates the rockfall hazard in mountain forests is key to understanding influence of climate-induced disturbances on protective capacity forests. Both experimental quantification and numerical process modeling are needed address this question. Modeling provides detailed insights into rock–deadwood interaction can therefore be used develop effective forest manag...

Rockfall detection is a crucial procedure in the field of geology, which helps to reduce associated risks. Currently, geologists identify rockfall events almost manually utilizing point cloud and imagery data obtained from different caption devices such as Terrestrial Laser Scanner (TLS) or digital cameras. Multitemporal comparison clouds with these techniques requires tedious visual inspection...

The identification of the most rockfall-prone areas is first step risk assessment procedure. In case land and urban planning, hazard analyses involve large portions territory, thus, preliminary methods are preferred to define specific zones where more detailed computations needed. To reach this goal, QGIS-based plugin QPROTO was developed, able quantitatively compute rockfall time-independent o...

Abstract Process-based rockfall simulation models attempt to better emulate dynamics different degrees. As no model is perfect, their development often accompanied and validated by the valuable collection of databases covering a range site geometries, rock masses, velocities, related energies that are designed for. Additionally, such data can serve as base for assessing model’s sensitivity para...

Rockfall events consist one of the most hazardous geological phenomena in mountainous landscapes, with potential to turn catastrophic if they occur near an anthropogenic environment. hazard and risk assessments are recognized as some challenging surveys among geoengineering society, due urgent need for accurate foresight likely rockfall areas, together their magnitude impact. In recent decades,...

To overcome the lack of historical archives at active rockfall environments, dendrogeomorphic techniques have been used extensively on forested slopes since early 2000s and several approaches developed to extract signals from tree-ring records. Given unpredictable nature rockfall, these reconstructions are, in principle, great help when it comes relate fluctuations activity meteorological varia...