Remote Sensing for Characterization of Fractured Rocks Masses and Landslide Monitoring
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 80
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Interests: artificial intelligence; big data analytics; geology; hydrology; remote sensing; time series analysis
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Interests: geomechanics; engineering geology; rock mass characterization; applied hydrogeology; geomatics applied to engineering geology; machine learning
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Interests: hydrogeology; geology; hydrology
Interests: landslide monitoring; photomonitoring; interferometry; geological risks; geological hazards; satellite images; machine learning; image processing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Remote sensing is used for characterizing fractured rock masses in a variety of applications, including for hydrogeological, geophysical, and landslide monitoring purposes. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) surveys are used to inform discrete fracture network models, which are used to visualize contaminant transport in shallow aquifers or provide 3D representations of the permeability of geological formations selected for geothermal energy, hydrocarbon extraction, and CO2 storage. UAV surveys are also crucial to the characterization of fractured rocks subject to slope instabilities. Such fractured rock masses require monitoring using innovative techniques, such as Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), to mitigate and forecast hazards related to landslides. InSAR can also be employed to monitor areas subject to fault activity, which represent the most heavily fractured portions of aquifers.
Topics of interest in this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, UAV surveys for the management of groundwater resources; the characterization of reservoir analogues for the extraction and storage of fluids; and InSAR monitoring for seismic or landslide hazard applications. By presenting groundbreaking work from authors in this field, we hope that this Special Issue will contribute to advancing the application of remote sensing to fractured rocks in the fields of hydrology, geo-energy, and seismic and landslide hazards for safe and sustainable land management.
The aim of this Special Issue is to collect original research articles and review papers about the following:
- Innovative models based on UAV and/or InSAR for monitoring fractured rock masses.
- Utilizing optical and/or radar data for slope instability analysis and/or landslide monitoring.
- Studies on UAV surveys for groundwater resource management, with a focus on fractured rock masses and landslide hazards.
- Studies that analyze potential factors that influence fractured rock masses, such as stress, tectonic forces, temperature variations, fluid pressure, and weathering.
Dr. Ebrahim Ghaderpour
Dr. Elisa Mammoliti
Dr. Giacomo Medici
Prof. Dr. Paolo Mazzanti
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fractured rock masses
- groundwater
- InSAR
- landslides
- slope instability
- UAV
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