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The objective of this work is twofold: (i) automatically setting up a landslide inventory using a state-of-the art semantic engine based on data mining on online news and (ii) evaluating if the automatically generated inventory can be used to validate a regional scale landslide warning system based on rainfall-thresholds.The semantic engine scanned internet news in real time in a 50 months test period...
In this study, we present a fully automated procedure to analyze online news using data mining techniques. It is then used to compile and continually update a geohazard database. The procedure is based on new technologies that publish news on the internet, i.e., the news is analyzed, georeferenced and attributed to a category of geohazards (the current categories are landslides, floods and earthquakes)...
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