Dynamic Topography Using Remote Sensing: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Detect and Model Earth’s Surface Processes
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: closed (31 March 2025) | Viewed by 1903
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Interests: slope; digital terrain analysis; landslide; remote sensing
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Interests: geomorphology; natural hazards; neotectonics; landslides; geological mapping
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Interests: geomorphology; active tectonic; geochronology; coastal dynamic
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Interests: landslides; fluvial geomorphology; terrain analysis; landscape evolution modelling
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Interests: structural geology; geomorphology; mountain building dynamics; fault mechanics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Surface responses to allogenic forcings (climate and tectonic) and autogenic processes occurring at different time scales (days to millennials) and frequencies (periodic to quasi-periodic) modulate the spatio-temporal distribution of local-to-global scale environmental changes. Remote sensing provides snapshots of this evolution and act as a crucial support in both classical and new techniques of Earth’s surface observation and change detection (field-based survey, geochronology, LEM, machine learning, DInSAR, etc.), which allows us to understand how geological, climate, and even anthropogenic events control each other at various time scales. GPS, UAV, satellite images, and laser scanning are extensively used to understand earthquake mechanics (i.e., co-seismic slip), landmass failures hazard, fluvio-deltaic depositional dynamics, fluvial and slope erosional cycles, vegetation cover and land use evolution, sediments provenance and routing, etc.
In this Special Issue, we aim to focus on multidisciplinary studies that apply remote sensing techniques and explore spatio-temporal surface evolution in response to different forcings and processes, such as crustal deformation and fluvial reorganization, as well as investigate the impact of climate change on surface processes and anthropic spreading. We also invite submissions that combine remote sensing with other classical and innovative approaches, focusing on modelling regional geomorphic evolution, rock type detection, natural hazard assessments, strain partitioning in tectonically active region, erosional-depositional dynamics, etc.
Potential topics include, but not limited to, the following:
- Tectonic processes;
- Climate change-related surface evolution;
- Drainage systems reorganization;
- Fault slip detection, strain partitioning and seismic cycles;
- Fluvial-deltaic sediments’ evolution, routing and deposition;
- Geomorphology and land use changes.
Dr. Balázs Székely
Dr. Mauro Bonasera
Dr. Ciro Cerrone
Dr. Michele Delchiaro
Dr. Riccardo Lanari
Dr. Francesco Pavano
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- tectonic deformation
- earthquake ground deformation
- landslides
- fluvial-deltaic dynamics
- sediments routing
- source-to-sink analysis
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