Mapping and Assessing Natural Disasters Using GIScience Technologies

Dear Colleagues,

The overall goal of this session is to explore and evaluate the potential of application of advanced GIScience technologies, such as remote sensing (RS), GIS, GPS, and spatial statistics in mapping, modeling, monitoring, and assessing various natural disasters. Natural disasters, such as floods, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and landslides, can cause immense loss of life and/or property. A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth. Such processes could be efficiently investigated and well understood with modern geospatial technologies. Specifically, this Special Issue will provide an outlet for the state of the art of utilizing advanced GIScience technologies to map, model, monitor, predict, and assess natural disasters. This Special Issue invites contributions that cover but are not limited to the following areas:

• Wildfires: Hotspot detection and burn scar mapping and environmental impact assessment using satellite RS data, GIS, GPS, etc.;
• Landslides: Monitoring, mapping, and assessing landslides using RADAR/LiDAR and/or optical RS devices, GIS, and GPS;
• Earthquakes/tsunamis: Mapping condition pre- and post-, and evaluation of loss and damage after earthquakes/tsunamis using multitemporal RS and GIS techniques;
• Other natural disasters: Mapping and monitoring of volcanic eruptions, flooding, and tornado/hurricane damage and processes, etc. using GIScience technologies and modeling tools.

Prof. Dr. Ruiliang Pu
Guest Editor

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