Monitoring Methods: Systems Behind a Safer Environment

The paper deals with the role of monitoringmethods in the broad range of actions thatcan be undertaken in order to make the environmentsafer from a man-kind perspective.Effort has been put into identifying and classifyingthe factors controlling the selection ofmonitoring methods, the key characteristicsof monitoring systems and the core group ofconstraining factors that must be consideredwhile choosing a monitoring system for aspecifi c purpose with reference to landsliderisk. The backbone structure of a decisionsupport system that can allow end-user toidentify sets of viable monitoring options hasbeen developed. While doing so, the specifi coperational differences between mainstreamin-situ and remote sensing method have beenidentifi ed and discussed.