Abstract
The project named the Landslide Counteracting System (SOPO in Polish) is the national landslide inventory project and was launched in 2008. The end-users of the project are administrative bodies, environmental protection inspectorates as well as non-governmental organizations. The project, commissioned by Ministry of Environment and financed by the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management, is managed by Polish Geological Institute—National Research Institute in the framework of geologic survey tasks.
Information on triggering events and landslide-related damage are compiled as attributes in documentary forms. Prior to being uploaded to the database, the collected information is verified by experts with respect to data consistency and reliability. The SOPO inventory is available via Web application (http://osuwiska.pgi.gov.pl) and is progressively updated. The service architecture is based on Esri ArcGIS Server and uses JavaScript API. Numerous spatial data (including vector and raster data sets) are served by Oracle DB through Esri ArcSDE. In order to improve speed, most static layers have been cached and are stored locally on servers as tiles. Dynamic data are served on demand. Users are grouped into a few roles, which allows for different levels of access to the data. Till April 2014, the database handles about 39,464 landslides, covering 1031.9 km2, mapped in 161 municipalities. In parallel, information on monitored landslides is stored.
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The LCS (SOPO) programme is financially supported by the National Fund for Nature Protection and Water Management.
The authors express their gratitude to other SOPO team co-workers for their valuable critical comments.
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Mrozek, T., Kułak, M., Grabowski, D., Wójcik, A. (2014).
Landslide Counteracting System (SOPO): Inventory Database of Landslides in Poland.
In: Sassa, K., Canuti, P., Yin, Y. (eds) Landslide Science for a Safer Geoenvironment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05050-8_126
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