LIPI unveils landslide detector
The Jakarta Post | Fri, 11/11/2011 7:39 AM
JAKARTA: The Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) says it has designed a device to detect landslides and is ready to install the technology in landslide-prone areas.
LIPI exhibited the landslide detector at the LIPI Expo, on the sidelines of the 10th National Science Congress that ran from Tuesday to Thursday.
“[The device] can detect even a few millimeters of ground movement. If the movement is significant, the device will send a real time signal and the data will be immediately displayed on the monitors at the observation station,” LIPI Physics Research center researcher Nursidiq said at the expo on Thursday.
He said that the device was a result of a collaboration between his unit and LIPI’s Center for Geotechnological Research.
