Tools for Rock Fall Risk Integrated Management in Sandstone Landscape of the Bohemian Switzerland National Park, Czech Republic (M121)

Abstract

There are 327 monitored rock objects with more than 900 measuring sites on the territory of Bohemian Switzerland NP and its nearest neighborhood, and the monitoring nets are ever growing. Therefore a high-tech, scientifically challenging Integrated System (IS) of effective, but nature-friendly management of rock fall risks on the Bohemian Switzerland NP territory has been under construction since 2002, there. Rapid processing and timely, on-line delivery of relevant, easy-to-understand information to an end-user through an information web portal and cellular phone emergency messages should be the highlights of IS. Other highlights are represented by the implementation of complex dynamical systems knowledge and methods to provide more realistic and mathematically more rigorous grasping of very complex dynamics of rock slope stability failure. Moreover, they also provide a basis for a qualitative step in implementation of computers for future highly automated run of data assessment, modeling and early warning modules of the system. Several successful case-histories have made those new tools very promising for the practical use. Nevertheless, there are some tasks still unfinished. Especially the one enabling to bridge the gap between science , civil protection and general public and by it to enhanced effectiveness of utilization of delivered information by its end-users.