Project: #494 Landslides: Tech transfer and commercialization advice Progress Report - Reporting Period Ending: April 1, 2025 Principal Investigator: Christoph Mertz Status: Overdue Project Start Date: July 1, 2024 End Date: June 30, 2025 Research Type: None Grant Type: Research Applied Grant Program: US DOT BIL, Safety21, 2023 - 2028 (4811) Grant Cycle: Safety21 : 24-25 Progress Report (Last Updated: Aug. 20, 2025, 6:47 a.m.) % Project Completed to Date: None % Grant Award Expended: None % Match Expended & Document: None USDOT Requirements Accomplishments The colleagues from Morgan State University from the project "Improve highway safety by reducing the risks of landslides" and Christoph Mertz found a landslide location that is conveniently located between their university and CMU. We jointly visited the location and took data. The data for CMU was mainly a large set of images of the whole landslide area and calibration images. The visit happened shortly before the start of Winter. Christoph Mertz has been analyzing this data and created 3D models of the landslide. In the near future we will re-visit the site again to take a new set of images. Since the area has gone through several freeze and thaw cycles, we expect that some of the soil has moved. We will use the new images to get a new 3D model and compare it to the previous model in order to measure the change. Impacts We already had success in creating a 3D model of the landslide, but the really interesting results will be when we can detect soil movement. Other Nothing to report at this point. Outcomes New Partners Nothing to report. Issues Nothing to report