Geospatial Approaches to Landslide Mapping and Monitoring

Dear Colleagues,

Landslides play an important role in the evolution of landscapes and still represent a major threat to urban areas and anthropogenic activities, to infrastructures, cultural and environmental heritage.

In the last decades, advanced remote sensing techniques have undergone a significant increase of usage as effective tools for landslide mapping, inventory and monitoring at various scales (these include but are not limited to Radar inteferometry, Lidar, Digital photogrammetry, Optical and Infrared imaging).

The landslide scientific community, practitioners and end-users, have greatly benefited from both the technological development of these techniques, in terms of spatial resolution, accuracy, fast measurement and processing times, and from the data availability and cost-effectiveness. In this perspective, a key issue is still represented by data management and processing tools which, in turn, can lead to a proper and accurate comprehensive view and interpretation of the slope instability processes, with the final aim of implementing mitigation measures for landslide risk management.

The goal of this Special Issue is to gather high-quality original research articles and reviews on innovative geospatial approaches, synergistic use of remote sensing techniques, and case studies applications for landslide detection, mapping and monitoring, from spaceborne, ground-based to UAV platforms.

Dr. Veronica Tofani
Dr. William Frodella
Guest Editors

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