Landslide databases provide essential information for hazard modeling damages on buildings and infrastructure, mitigation, and research needs. This study presents the development of a landslide database system named WISL (Wurzburg Information System on Landslides), currently storing detailed landslide data for northern Bavaria, Germany, in order to enable scientific queries as well as comparisons with other regional landslide inventories. WISL is based on free open source software solutions (PostgreSQL, PostGIS) assuring good correspondence of. the various softwares and to enable further extensions with specific adaptions of self -developed software. Apait from that, WISL was designed to be particularly compatible for easy communication with other databases. As a central pre-requisite for standardized, homogeneous data acquisition in the field, a customized data sheet for landslide description was Compiled. This sheet also serves as an input mask for all data regisiration procedures in WISL. A variety of "in-database" solutions for laridslide analysis pnivides the necessary sCalability foi the database, enabling operations at the local Server. In its current state, WISL already enables extensive analysis and queries. This paper presents an example analysis of landslides in Oxfordian Limestones in the northeastern Franconian Alb; northern Bavaria. The results reveal widely differing landslides in terms of geometry and size. Further queries related to landslide activity classifies the majority of the landslides as currently inactive, however, they clearly possess a certain potential for remobilization. Along with some active mass movements, a significant percentage of landslides potentially endangers residential areas or infrastructure. The main aspect of future enhancements of the WISL database is related to data extensions in order to increase research possibilities, as well as to transfer the system to other regions and countries. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Die Region um Ebermannstadt ist stark anfällig für Massenbewegungen. Eine Rutschung aus dem Jahr 1957 wurde geomorphologisch kartiert und mit geophysikalischen Messungen (Gleichstromgeoelektrik sowie Refraktionsseismik) untersucht. Die Ziele der Untersuchungen waren eine Rekonstruktion der Beobachtungen von 1957 sowie deren Vergleich mit der heutigen Oberfläche und dem oberflächennahen Untergrund. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die früheren Beobachtungen auch heute noch Gültigkeit besitzen. Darüber hinaus ist es möglich, einzelne Rutschungselemente und Prozesse zu differenzieren. Die Studie zeigt zudem die Verbreitung von alten Rutschmassen, welche in die Rutschung von 1957 eingebunden waren. Eine erneute Remobilisierung dieser Ablagerungen kann nicht ausgeschlossen werden.

Paraglacial processes in the glacier foreland of Vernagtferner in the Otztal Alps of Austria were studied. The work primarily analyses the prominent lateral moraines and associated paraglacial processes there such as mass movements and formation and development of gullies or gully-like channels. A special focus was set on the examination of former hypotheses of gully formation depending on slope gradients, sediment thickness, matrix granulometry and sediment packing, which were developed mainly in the Skandes of Norway and have not been commonly used in alpine glacier forelands. In order to obtain comparable results, investigations were based on methods established in those studies such as analyzing gully density, slope angle, grain size distribution etc. Furthermore, measurements of current erosion rates and geomorphologic mappings were applied. The results revealed that numerous factors influence lateral moraine dynamics and the development of gullies. Similarities to former hypotheses of gully formation e.g., from western Norway, could be drawn as well. In addition to a certain slope gradient, the amount of accumulated till seems to be the most important factor. Beside them, composition and packing of sediments is likely to influence the occurrence or absence of gullies in the study area. Our work also contains investigations from other paraglacially active areas of the foreland, in order to provide a more complete overview of the activities there. These studies were mainly focused on photographic comparisons of the situation of 1991 and 2008. However, even in this short period of time, some significant changes, like in the drainage pattern, could be detected.