Remote Sensing for Geohazard Monitoring and Assessment
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: 28 September 2025 | Viewed by 75
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Significant advancements in remote sensing capabilities have enabled us to identify and monitor a wide variety of geological hazards. In particular, the temporal and spatial resolution that can now be achieved with terrestrial and airborne platforms (including UAVs) provide details that are not discernible from satellite platforms. For example, terrestrial InSAR can achieve measurement intervals of less than one minute with a spatial resolution of one square meter, while satellite InSAR can provide intervals of days or weeks, with a far lower spatial resolution. With regard to a developing landslide hazard, the enhanced resolution offered by terrestrial InSAR enables more reliable short-term failure prognoses to be made.
This Special Issue focuses on the application of terrestrial, airborne and satellite-based remote sensing platforms and technologies for the identification, monitoring and quantification of geological hazards. Primary sensor technologies of interest include InSAR, LiDAR, and optical, thermal, multispectral and hyperspectral imaging. The techniques employed to extract information from point clouds, implementing artificial intelligence for data evaluation and techniques for prognosticating hazard development are also of interest.
The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- Landslide identification and mapping
- The quantification and mapping of co-seismic ground deformations
- Hydraulic erosion, scour and flooding
- Subsidence processes
- Geo-engineering characterization of rock masses
- Data extraction from point clouds
- Implementations of artificial intelligence
- Hazard development and prognosis.
Prof. Dr. Scott Kieffer
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- landslide detection
- earthquake deformation
- subsidence monitoring
- geologic risk assessment
- SAR/InSAR
- LiDAR
- photogrammetry
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