The northeastern part of Pakistan is known to be a region of extremes,
where the highest reliefs of the world are and where the geology can be
considered young from an orgogeny point of view. In this environment, a
big multidisciplinary project, named SEED (Social, Economic and
Environmental Development in the CKNP Region Project), is taken by
Ev-K2-CNR project. SEED is made by several different projects, each one
focused on a different theme (e.g. glaciology, meteorology, land cover)
that permit to characterize, from different points of view, the new Central
Karakorum National Park. One of it is focused on a better knowledge of
the territory trough the analysis of the hazardous areas, important
instrument to for a future rational planning. The geostatic evidences,
better known as landslides, will be firstly identified using a new generation
of high quality DTM (Digital Terrain Model) at a spatial resolution better
than the one obtained through traditional techniques. These high quality
data permit to individuate different slope morphologies and to recognize
possible geostatic phenomena. The methodology will permit to identify the
geostatic phenomena that will be secondarily identified on the field, only
in sample areas in order to validate the tool. This permit to create the
first, upgradable in real time, landslide inventory for the area of the
Central Karakorum National Park.
