What is LIRA?
LIRA is an acronym that stands for ‘Landslide Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment.’ The aim of this project is to develop a pioneering and resilient approach to assess landslide susceptibility, hazard, and risk. This involves a comprehensive methodology that integrates diverse data, including topographical, geological, geotechnical, hydrogeological, tectonic, climatic, and land use information. The methodology uniquely combines classical quantitative geotechnical safety indices, Machine Learning analysis, and advanced statistical techniques to effectively manage uncertainties, yielding dependable results even in regions with limited landslide records. The outcome will be a sophisticated tool, unprecedented in its scope that integrates key causal and triggering factors to automatically generate comprehensive maps depicting landslide susceptibility, hazard, and risk for the entire nation of Cyprus. Given Cyprus’ geological intricacies, mountainous terrain, rainfall patterns, human activities, and seismic activity, it serves as an ideal testing ground for this tool.
The collaborative nature of the project with local stakeholders, particularly authorities lacking comprehensive risk reduction policies, positions this initiative to usher in safer measures for the future development of rural, tourist, residential, and economic activities. Beyond the project’s duration, the proposed infrastructure stands to benefit state authorities, policy makers, the construction industry, and practicing engineers in Cyprus.
Our Objective:
The main project objective of LIRA project is to develop a novel software for the determination and assessment of landslide susceptibility and hazard which will rely on the integration of pre-existing local data and experience, conventional geotechnical research and the use of Machine Learning analysis within a GIS environment.
The main outcomes of the LIRA solution are:
• Creation of a geotechnical database that could be useful to engineers irrespectively of the geotechnical problem studied
• Investigation of the influence degree of the main causal and triggering factors in order to determine the factors that play an active role in the activation of landslides
• Development of landslide susceptibility through Machine Learning method
• Development landslide hazard and risk map
• Development a Web-GIS platform
End user benefits
The LIRA system alleviates specific customer pains caused by uncertainty of geohazards and landslide occurrence and contributes immensely to reduce costs and overall risk, enhance the performance and reliability of human made environment, offers simplicity and convenience to infrastructure planners and minimises costs from legal fees and regulation compliance. The LIRA output under the brand name LIRA Geohazards solutions will be scalable, customizable, accessible and able to reach a wide and heterogeneous user base considering offering also free tiers for trials, and academic/research use
Our conceptual Model