Geospatial and Remote Sensing Technologies in Geo-Environmental Hazards Monitoring
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 August 2023) | Viewed by 2853
Special Issue Editors
Interests: synthetic aperture radar; polarimetric synthetic aperature radar; soil moisture inversion; crop growth monitoring; disaster monitoring using multi-source remote sensing
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Interests: soil moisture inversion; polarimetric synthetic aperture radar; target detection using SAR; classification using polarimetric SAR images
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Large economic loss and threats to human safety have been caused by geo-environmental hazards, such as drought, flooding, landslide, earthquake, debris flow, soil erosion, ground surface deformation, and the degradation of groundwater. It is important to illustrate their temporal and spatial distribution of occurrence and to assess their effect on the social, environmental, and economic status of the affected region. In addition, it is important to investigate the contributions of factors including human activities, environmental conditions and meteorological factors to different geo-environmental hazards. Geospatial technologies including geographic information systems, remote sensing based Earth observation as well as related spatial data analysis tools and models have been investigated and widely applied in the monitoring, predicting and preventing of geo-environmental hazards. It facilitates the mechanism analysis and assessment of geo-environmental hazards on a large scale. Although great progress has been made in the last two decades, there are still some uncertainties in the modeling and in analysis of the occurrence mechanism of geo-environmental hazards.
Therefore, this Special Issue focuses on the following topics: new models and applications of geospatial technologies including GIS, related spatial data analysis tools and models in the mapping and mechanism analysis of geo-environmental hazards, the new algorithms and applications of remote sensing technologies including optical remote sensing, microwave remote sensing, LiDAR and another airborne-based remote sensing, in the monitoring of geo-environmental hazards.
Dr. Lingli Zhao
Dr. Weidong Sun
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- geo-environmental hazards
- geospatial technologies
- remote sensing applications
- disaster monitoring
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