Rockfall trajectory reconstruction: a flexible method utilizing video footage and high-resolution terrain models

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Title
Rockfall trajectory reconstruction: a flexible method utilizing video footage and high-resolution terrain models
Journal
Earth Surface Dynamics
Author(s)
Noël François, Jaboyedoff Michel, Caviezel Andrin, Hibert Clément, Bourrier Franck, Malet Jean-Philippe
ISSN
2196-632X
Publication state
Published
Issued date
14/11/2022
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
10
Number
6
Pages
1141-1164
Language
english
Abstract
Many examples of rockfall simulation software provide great flexibility to the user at the expense of a hardly achievable parameter unification. With sensitive site-dependent parameters that are hardly generalizable from the literature and case studies, the user must properly calibrate simulations for the desired site by performing back-calculation analyses. Thus, rockfall trajectory reconstruction methods are needed. For that purpose, a computer-assisted videogrammetric 3D trajectory reconstruction method (CAVR) built on earlier approaches is proposed. Rockfall impacts are visually identified and timed from video footage and are manually transposed on detailed high-resolution 3D terrain models that act as the spatial reference. This shift in reference removes the dependency on steady and precisely positioned cameras, ensuring that the CAVR method can be used for reconstructing trajectories from witnessed previous records with nonoptimal video footage. For validation, the method is applied to reconstruct some trajectories from a rockfall experiment performed by the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF. The results are compared to previous ones from the SLF and share many similarities. Indeed, the translational energies, bounce heights, rotational energies, and impact positions against a flexible barrier compare well with those from the SLF. The comparison shows that the presented cost-effective and flexible CAVR method can reproduce proper 3D rockfall trajectories from experiments or real rockfall events.
Keywords
Earth-Surface Processes, Geophysics
Web of science
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Yes
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05/12/2022 12:53
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12/11/2023 8:16
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