Turtle Mountain

Turtle Mountain Monitoring Program

In 2005, the Alberta Geological Survey took responsibility of monitoring Turtle Mountain, site of the 1903 rockslide at the Town of Frank in Crowsnest Pass. Working with a panel of geotechnical experts, we created a state-of-the-art near-real-time remote monitoring system called the Turtle Mountain Monitoring System (TMMS). It uses advanced technologies such as light ranging and detection (LiDAR) and ground-based interferometric synthetic aperture radar (GB-InSAR), to monitor and understand the nature of rock movements on Turtle Mountain’s slopes.