Imaging Geodesy and Infrastructure Monitoring II

Dear Colleagues,

The significance of detailed information about the Earth's shape and deformation, especially at the surface, is widely recognized for understanding underlying processes and aiding further geohazard mitigation. In recent years, geodetic imaging techniques, such as LiDAR scanning, structure from motion (SfM) with UAV imagery, satellite/ground-based Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), sub-pixel offset tracking with optical/SAR images, and the difference of digital elevation models (DEM) acquired from remote and in-situ instruments, have achieved remarkable advancements. Notably, given that different types of geodetic measurements operate on diverse temporal and spatial scales, the integration of multiple observations has demonstrated its effectiveness in characterizing, monitoring, and assessing the state or changes of the Earth's surface. However, the application of geodetic imaging techniques within the civil engineering community, especially for hazard assessment and mitigation, has yet to be fully explored and utilized.

The primary objective of this special issue is to showcase the progress of geodetic imaging techniques and their scientific applications in monitoring infrastructures, with a particular focus on hazard assessment and mitigation related to geohazards (e.g., landslides, earthquakes, volcanoes) or environmental changes (e.g., permafrost degradation, floods). We encourage submissions on the theory and method advancements for geodetic imaging techniques, as well as numerical modeling and laboratory experiments. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• SAR/InSAR data processing methods and applications in urban regions
• Theory and methods on in-situ geodetic imaging data acquisition, processing, and analysis
• Theory and methods on different geodetic imaging data assimilation
• Stability analysis of infrastructure assisted by geodetic imaging observations
• Geohazard monitoring and resilience assessment of infrastructures

Dr. Xiaowen Wang
Prof. Dr. Keren Dai
Dr. Jie Dong
Dr. Rui Zhang
Prof. Dr. Roberto Tomás
Guest Editors

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