Current and future role of instrumentation and monitoring in the performance of transport infrastructure slopes

Instrumentation is often used to monitor the performance of engineered infrastructure slopes. This paper looks at the
current role of instrumentation and monitoring, including the reasons for monitoring infrastructure slopes, the instrumentation
typically installed and parameters measured. The paper then investigates recent developments in technology and considers how
these may change the way that monitoring is used in the future, and tries to summarize the barriers and challenges to greater use
of instrumentation in slope engineering. The challenges relate to economics of instrumentation within a wider risk management
system, a better understanding of the way in which slopes perform and/or lose performance, and the complexities of managing
and making decisions from greater quantities of data