Advances in Remote Sensing for Disaster Research: Methodologies and Applications
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (2 October 2020) | Viewed by 71097
Special Issue Editors
Interests: multi-agent systems and agent-based simulation; tsunami simulation; evacuation simulation; remote sensing
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Interests: earth observation; numerical modeling; disaster management; early warning; tsunami; flood; earthquake
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Growing attention has been given to the use of satellite- or aircraft-based sensor technologies to detect and classify objects on Earth. The acquisition of information through remote sensing technologies has been applied in numerous fields, including disaster research and disaster management. Remote sensing has been applied to detection, monitoring, and response to disasters due to natural hazards. It has also provided the opportunity to identify urban vulnerabilities and exposure to possible disasters.
This Special Issue invites paper contributions highlighting recent advances in methodologies and applications of remote sensing to disaster research. Research focusing on earthquake, tsunami, and flood disasters is encouraged, but other types of disasters are welcome. We encourage submissions of review and original research articles related, but not limited, to satellite remote sensing, aerial image analysis, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology, etc. that focus on the following topics:
- Gathering data for vulnerability and exposure analysis;
- Post-disaster field survey using drones;
- Damage assessment and mapping;
- Disaster recovery monitoring;
- Earth observation (EO) for humanitarian aid;
- AI algorithms applied on remote sensing data for disaster research;
- Public participation in scientific disaster research (citizen science);
- Other topics related to remote sensing and disaster research.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
“Remote Sensing” is the Media Partner of the World Bosai Forum/International Disaster Risk Conference 2019, to be held in Sendai (WBF2019).
Although this Special Issue is open to other contributions, it also includes some of the outcomes of the session “Innovative Remote Sensing Technologies for Enhancing Disaster Management”, held at the WBF2019.
http://www.worldbosaiforum.com/2019/english/
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Erick Mas
Prof. Dr. Shunichi Koshimura
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Disaster research
- Remote sensing
- Disaster management
- Satellite remote sensing
- Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
- Aerial photo
- Machine learning
- Damage assessment
- Disaster recovery
- Drone field survey
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