Advances in Remote Sensing and Digital Twins for Management of Civil Infrastructure Assets
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 10233
Special Issue Editors
Interests: bridge engineering and asset management; digital twin development; unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based photogrammetry; terrestrial laser scanning (TLS); structural health monitoring (SHM), sustainability, and life cycle management.
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Interests: advanced manufacturing; civil/structural engineering; bridge engineering; structural seismic dampers; digital twin development; bridge health monitoring; bridge information model (BrIM)
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Interests: building information modeling and digital twins
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Interests: digital twin; quality evaluation; geometric accuracy; point cloud; UAV photogrammetry; terrestrial laser scanning (TLS); bridge inspection; 3D model extraction; bridge information model (brim); digitization; image matching; UAV map; tie point filtering; image keypoint selection; keypoint filtering; multi-criteria decision making; bundle block adjustment; image orientation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, emerging technologies such as Digital Twins and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have revolutionized the monitoring and management of civil infrastructures. Advances in remote sensing, including Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), terrestrial laser scanning (TLS), and other sensing platforms, have resulted in efficient, accurate, and cost-effective alternatives to traditional inspection and maintenance methods. These technologies enable comprehensive monitoring of various civil structures, including bridges, tunnels, and buildings, throughout their lifecycle, encouraging the increased adoption of these methods for effective asset management.
This Special Issue welcomes contributions demonstrating innovative developments in technologies combining remote sensing with AI and Digital Twins for civil infrastructure asset management, as well as case studies highlighting their applications in the 3D modeling, assessment, and management of civil infrastructures across the fabrication, construction, operation, and maintenance phases.
Potential topics for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following remote sensing applications:
- Three-dimensional reconstruction and geometric modeling of civil structures using UAV photogrammetry, TLS, and other sensing technologies.
- Quality inspection and condition assessment of structural elements using remote sensing and Artificial Intelligence.
- Integration of remote sensing with Digital Twins for monitoring and predictive maintenance.
- Advanced structural health monitoring (SHM) leveraging deep learning, computer vision, and image analysis techniques.
- Development and utilization of Building and Bridge Information Models (BIM/BrIM) for infrastructure management.
- Decision-support systems and process tracking for inspection, maintenance, and asset management.
- Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies.
Dr. Maria Rashidi
Dr. Masoud Mohammadi
Dr. Linh Truong-Hong
Dr. Vahid Mousavi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- digital twins
- structural health monitoring (SHM)
- artificial intelligence (AI)
- UAV-based photogrammetry
- terrestrial laser scanning (TLS)
- building and bridge information modeling (BIM/BrIM)
- 3D reconstruction and modeling
- computer vision
- bridge inspection
- infrastructure inspection and assessment
- infrastructure management systems
- virtual reality (VR)
- augmented reality (AR)
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