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Gilles Grandjean

Gilles Grandjean

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Earth Science

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33
Citations
3943
World Ranking
8393
National Ranking
666

Overview

Gilles Grandjean is affiliated with the French Geological Survey in France. Their research spans multiple aspects of environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a primary focus on landslides and related hazards.

Their work covers a variety of topics including:

  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Flood risk assessment and management
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geological modeling and analysis
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Main fields of study for Grandjean include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Subfields of particular interest are:

  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Geophysics
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Atmospheric Science

Recurring co-authors in their publications are:

  • Marc Peruzzetto
  • A. Mangeney
  • Yannick Thiéry
  • François Bouchut
  • Clara Lévy

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Remote Sensing
  • Engineering Geology
  • Natural Hazards

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Grandjean are:

  • Improvement of landslide hazard assessments for regulatory zoning in France: STATE-OF-THE-ART perspectives and considerations, 2020, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Operational Estimation of Landslide Runout: Comparison of Empirical and Numerical Methods, 2020, Geosciences
  • Topography Curvature Effects in Thin-Layer Models for Gravity-Driven Flows Without Bed Erosion, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Montmorillonite Estimation in Clay-Quartz-Calcite Samples from Laboratory SWIR Imaging Spectroscopy: A Comparative Study of Spectral Preprocessings and Unmixing Methods, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Simplified simulation of rock avalanches and subsequent debris flows with a single thin-layer model: Application to the Prêcheur river (Martinique, Lesser Antilles), 2021, Engineering Geology

Best Publications

  • Meso-Cenozoic geodynamic evolution of the Paris Basin: 3D stratigraphic constraints

    François Guillocheau;Cécile Robin;Pascal Allemand;Sylvie Bourquin

  • Slope instabilities in Dolomieu crater, Réunion Island: From seismic signals to rockfall characteristics

    Clément Hibert;A. Mangeney;A. Mangeney;Gilles Grandjean;N.M. Shapiro

  • GPR data processing for 3D fracture mapping in a marble quarry (Thassos, Greece)

    G. Grandjean;J.C. Gourry

  • Evaluation of GPR techniques for civil-engineering applications: study on a test site

    G. Grandjean;J.C. Gourry;A. Bitri

  • Automated identification, location and volume estimation of rockfalls at Piton de la Fournaise volcano

    Clément Hibert;Clément Hibert;Anne Mangeney;Anne Mangeney;Gilles Grandjean;Christian Baillard

  • Two-dimensional elastic full waveform inversion using Born and Rytov formulations in the frequency domain

    Céline Gélis;Jean Virieux;Gilles Grandjean

  • The potential of seismic methods for detecting cavities and buried objects: experimentation at a test site

    Gilles Grandjean;Donatienne Leparoux

  • Meso-Cenozoic geodynamic evolution of the Paris Basin: 3D stratigraphic constraints

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  • Shallow-structure characterization by 2D elastic full-waveform inversion

    Anouar Romdhane;Gilles Grandjean;Romain Brossier;Fayçal Rejiba

  • Hydrological response of weathered clay-shale slopes: water infiltration monitoring with time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography

    Julien Travelletti;Julien Travelletti;Pascal Sailhac;Jean-Philippe Malet;Gilles Grandjean

  • Landslide databases in the Geological Surveys of Europe

    Gerardo Herrera;Rosa María Mateos;Juan Carlos García-Davalillo;Gilles Grandjean

  • Characterizing landslides through geophysical data fusion: Example of the La Valette landslide (France)

    Clément Hibert;Gilles Grandjean;Adnand Bitri;Julien Travelletti

  • Prediction of changes in landslide rates induced by rainfall

    Séverine Bernardie;Nicolas Desramaut;Jean-Philippe Malet;M. Gourlay

  • Numerical Modeling of Surface Waves Over Shallow Cavities

    C. Gelis;D. Leparoux;J. Virieux;A. Bitri

  • On Water Detection in the Martian Subsurface Using Sounding Radar

    Essam Heggy;Essam Heggy;Philippe Paillou;Gilles Ruffié;J.-M. Malézieux

  • Surface-wave Inversion Limitations from Laser-Doppler Physical Modeling

    Ludovic Bodet;Kasper van Wijk;Adnand Bitri;Odile Abraham

  • Subsurface imaging in south-central Egypt using low-frequency radar: Bir Safsaf revisited

    P. Paillou;G. Grandjean;N. Baghdadi;E. Heggy

  • Subsurface structures detection by combining L-band polarimetric SAR and GPR data: example of the Pyla Dune (France)

    G. Grandjean;P. Paillou;P. Dubois-Fernandez;T. August-Bernex

  • 2M-SASW: Multifold multichannel seismic inversion of local dispersion of Rayleigh waves in laterally heterogeneous subsurfaces: application to the Super-Sauze earthflow, France

    G. Grandjean;A. Bitri

  • Structural study of the Ballandaz landslide (French Alps) using geophysical imagery

    Gilles Grandjean;Jean-Christophe Gourry;Olivier Sanchez;Adnand Bitri

  • Relationship between profile length and roughness variables for natural surfaces

    Nicolas Baghdadi;Philippe Paillou;Gilles Grandjean;P. Dubois

  • Frequency–wavenumber modelling and migration of 2D GPR data in moderately heterogeneous dispersive media

    Adnand Bitri;Gilles Grandjean

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Philippe Malet
Jean-Philippe Malet University of Strasbourg
Anne Mangeney
Anne Mangeney Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Olivier Cerdan
Olivier Cerdan Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières
François Costard
François Costard University of Paris-Saclay
Nikolai M. Shapiro
Nikolai M. Shapiro Grenoble Alpes University
Sébastien Lambot
Sébastien Lambot Université Catholique de Louvain
Stéphane Operto
Stéphane Operto Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jean Virieux
Jean Virieux Grenoble Alpes University
Nicolas Baghdadi
Nicolas Baghdadi University of Montpellier
Philippe Lagacherie
Philippe Lagacherie University of Montpellier

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