Land Subsidence: Monitoring, Prediction and Modeling - 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Recently, land subsidence has become one of the important risk factors. Taking into consideration global warming and sea level rise, many regions of the world, large cities, and land users will be affected by the changes. In many of those areas, the land has subsided due to water pumping, gas and oil extraction, soft soils or peat compaction, and additional building load. On the other hand, there are terrains where the mining of raw materials is or was lately active. Mining is one of the most important factors of subsidence, sinkholes, and other related damage. It can affect buildings and infrastructure, threatening and decreasing quality of life. In any area transformed by human activity, the ground movements should also be considered. New ideas in modeling approach development, rock mechanics, and civil engineering have emerged in many countries. Novel measurement technics, sensors, and the expanding availability of remote sensing data have created new opportunities in relation to the monitoring of land subsidence.

This Special Issue of Applied Sciences is intended for specialists and an interdisciplinary audience, and covers recent advances in the following topics:

• Land subsidence innovative monitoring technologies and untypical case studies;
• Prediction of land subsidence: case studies for different kind of raw materials;
• Modeling: new and improved approaches, parametrization, accuracy, and reliability.

Prof. Dr. Ryszard Hejmanowski
Dr. Pietro Teatini
Guest Editors

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