LANDSLIP knowledge product: Landslide forecasting

This document provides an overview of the landslide forecast models used or explored by LANDSLIP. It describes the various approaches used, their main assumptions and limitations, and highlights model calibration and evaluation phases. It concludes with a summary of recommendations for others interested in landslide risk management, data management, decision-making and communication of risk.

Landslide forecasting is central to the operation of LANDSLIP's regional scale landslide forecasting system. Knowledge of the underpinning modeling approaches, their assumptions and limitations, is critical for anyone wishing to understand how to develop or implement a similar system.