Observing Strategic Infrastructure from Space
A special issue of Geotechnics (ISSN 2673-7094).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2021) | Viewed by 551
Special Issue Editors
Interests: civil engineering; geotechnical engineering; earthquake engineering; earth dams; slope stability; shallow and deep foundations
Interests: signal processing; data and image analysis; satellite remote sensing; sensor networks; machine learning applied to satellite images
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Dear Colleagues,
During their lifetime, civil structures (bridges, dams, or other strategic infrastructures) could modify their behavior, mainly due to changes in material characteristics, loading and environmental conditions, ground instability, or simply due to errors in the design and construction processes.
To assess current and future safety conditions of strategic infrastructures, on-site advanced structural health monitoring and damage detection tools are commonly implemented.
On-site instruments may be employed to monitor the most critical points of strategic constructions, but, being based on a limited set of sensors mounted on or within the structure, they have the disadvantage of providing incomplete (in space and time) information on structure response during the whole life. Recent advances in satellite image processing techniques could be fundamental for detecting major structural deficiencies and anomalous behaviors of the entire construction system (structure and soil interacting with it). Additionally, the combined use of remote sensing imagery and on-site monitoring data could strengthen the quality of the overall monitoring process and safety assessment to be provided to decision makers. In this perspective, different skills in civil and telecommunication engineering are needed to adequately validate the different monitoring techniques acquired from “space” and “earth”.
Prof. Dr. Stefania Sica
Prof. Dr. Silvia Liberata Ullo
Guest Editors
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