Spatial Data Science for Cultural Heritage Climatic Change Risk Assessment and Mitigation
A special issue of Heritage (ISSN 2571-9408).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 142
Special Issue Editors
Interests: geographic information systems; remote sensing; geophysical prospection; geoinformatics
Interests: humanities computing; cultural informatics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climatic change exposes cultural heritage assets to extreme conditions, which in tandem to geological/ environmental hazards and anthropogenic interventions that threaten our cultural heritage. European Union has become sensitive of this situation and has initiated a number of projects and directives through the implementation of various methods and techniques for the mapping and monitoring of the hazards, modelling of the associated risks, and the development of smart mitigation measures for the protection of cultural monuments and sites. The proposed volume emphasizes the usage of spatial data science and geoinformatics in relation to the assessment and mitigation of the climatic change risk on cultural elements.
The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) to give insights into Spatial Data Science for Cultural Heritage Climatic Change Risk Assessment and Mitigation.
This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:
- Spatial data science;
- Cultural heritage risk assessment;
- Climatic change;
- Monitoring and mitigation measures;
- Modelling, deep data, and AI;
- Geospatial technologies.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Prof. Dr. Apostolos Sarris
Dr. George Pavlidis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cultural heritage
- climatic risk assessment
- monitoring and mitigation measures
- geospatial technologies and modelling
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