Dear Colleagues,

Landslides, ground cracks, surface faulting and liquefactions are the most common seismically induced ground effects in areas affected by seismic shaking. The resulting seismic-induced scenario and the spatial distribution of direct and indirect effects are controlled by the type and magnitude of the seismic trigger and can be retrieved based on direct survey and/or multiple remote image acquisitions carried out by UAVs, aerial or satellite platforms, functional to their inventorying and analysis. In this sense, remote sensing techniques also support assessing the distribution of variables such as soil moisture, snow and vegetation covers, which deserve the role of predisposing and preparatory factors for seismically induced scenarios. The coexistence of these factors directly influences the characteristics of the resulting earthquake-induced scenarios, featuring the size and intensity of the effects, clustering, and cascading consequences.

As a result of the recent upgrade in coverage, geometric and radiometric resolution experienced by remotely sensed images and the progress achieved in image analysis processing, we can now acquire images of large areas affected by a seismic event, improving coverage and completeness of the catalogues over large areas, as recently occurred with the Turkish–Syrian earthquake.

This Special Issue aims to focus on all the remote sensing applications that have enabled detection of irregularities over a large area of landslides, or other types of ground effects, induced by high-magnitude earthquakes that have occurred worldwide. Another topic of interest is linked to ground-effect scenarios induced by low-magnitude earthquakes, which can, however, give rise to outliers in expected spatial distribution, as the effect of the simultaneous action on the affected area of predisposing or preparatory factors, which can increase the areal proneness to ground instabilities.

We encourage the submission of research papers, reviews, technical notes and brief reports in which the remote sensing techniques have been employed to recent earthquakes and case histories of earthquake-induced landslides, the reconstructions of new inventories, the analysis of single cases or earthquake-induced scenarios at regional scales in remote/large areas.

Dr. Matteo Fiorucci
Dr. Gian Marco Marmoni
Prof. Dr. Salvatore Martino
Guest Editors

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• earthquake-induced landslides
• landslide distribution
• landslide scenarios
• co/post-seismic landslides surveying and monitoring
• remote sensing applied to landslides
• SAR, DInSAR, GBInSAR interferometry
• photointerpretation
• environmental monitoring