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3 Introduction 1.1 Background Unstable slopes pose a potential threat to public safety and mobility and increase the cost of maintaining the nation's highway system. Unstable slopes include embankments and cut slopes and beyond-the-right-of-way hazard sites that have exhibited movement or present a threat of movement.
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4 Advances in Unstable Slope Instrumentation and Monitoring or sudden changes in conditions. Instrumentation and monitoring technologies also often incorporate data management processes and technology for recording, storing, transmitting, and analyzing collected data over time.
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Introduction 5 • Data collection, analyzing, viewing, and communication technologies • Innovative technologies developed by DOTs • Sources of funding for unstable slope monitoring and procurement approaches • Management of slope monitoring data • The use of monitoring and instrumentation data following collection and analysis • Advantages, disadvantages, and lessons learned of the technologies used. 1.4 Terminology Definitions for common terms and abbreviations used throughout the synthesis are in a glossary at the end of this report.
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