Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: GeoAI in Disaster
A special issue of Geomatics (ISSN 2673-7418).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 1392
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Communities worldwide are facing more frequent and severe disasters as a result of climate change. To meet this challenge, new tools are needed that can strengthen preparedness, speed recovery, and protect lives and infrastructure. Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) has emerged as a transformative tool, integrating AI with geospatial science to revolutionize disaster prediction, monitoring, response, and recovery. Its ability to process large-scale, multi-source data in real time offers unprecedented potential to save lives and reduce economic losses.
This Special Issue focuses on practical applications of GeoAI across the disaster management cycle, from early warning to long-term recovery We seek contributions that demonstrate novel methodologies, practical implementations, and critical evaluations of GeoAI technologies in addressing global disaster challenges. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- AI-driven disaster prediction and early warning systems
- Real-time monitoring using satellite, UAV, and IoT data
- Post-disaster damage assessment with computer vision and NLP
- Multi-modal data fusion and large language models in disaster management
- Ethical considerations, bias mitigation, and scalability of GeoAI solutions
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Prof. Dr. Suchi Gopal
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- GeoAI
- disaster management
- machine learning
- remote sensing
- early warning systems
- risk assessment
- emergency response
- climate resilience
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