Before the Slope Speaks: Lessons from Failure Prediction Using Real-Time Monitoring Systems

The presentation highlights key lessons from multiple case studies across commodities, demonstrating how deformation patterns, monitoring data, and geotechnical analysis can be integrated to anticipate failures. It emphasizes the importance of comprehensive geotechnical analysis prior to hazard mapping, proper selection and strategic deployment of monitoring instruments, and TARP-based decision-making as key elements of failure prediction, while also identifying current gaps and future opportunities in advancing monitoring systems toward data-driven, decision-support tools.