Geodesy of Earth Monitoring System

Dear Colleagues,

The Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), gravity-dedicated satellite missions, Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR), Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), Satellite Altimetry, and other space-geodetic techniques together with airborne, seaborne, ground, and near subsurface geodetic systems have become indispensable to observe and understand the Earth System as well as interactions between geosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere. In recent years, particular emphasis has been given to monitoring of phenomena related to natural and anthropogenic geo-hazards, such as glacial melting, sea level change, volcanism, earthquake deformations, or subsidence due to groundwater depletion. We have also witnessed a rapid development of geodetic techniques and their applications (along with geophysical methods) in monitoring of geo-tectonics and understanding of the Earth’s inner structure.

This special issue aims at studies covering numerous applications of geodetic techniques to observe dynamic processes in the Earth System along with more traditional geodetic methods of detecting the Earth’s shape, rotation, orientation, gravity field and their temporal changes. Possible topics might cover well-established geodetic methods of monitoring various phenomena at different temporal and spatial scales as well as examples of newly developed techniques and their applications. Studies addressing methods of collecting, processing, and interpreting geodetic data from multiple sources are particularly welcome.

Dr. Robert Tenzer
Dr. Hok Sum Fok
Prof. Dr. Mohammad Bagherbandi
Guest Editors

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