Decision Support Systems for Civil Infrastructure Management Based on Satellite Technology

Dear Colleagues,

Several bridges and other civil infrastructures worldwide have been in operation for over half a century and exhibit widespread signs of deterioration. Monitoring and maintenance are needed to sustain their safe operation, and satellite technology can revolutionize the current contact-type structural health monitoring (SHM) practice. Indeed, hundreds of satellites are already monitoring our planet every day, and remote sensing techniques, such as InSAR, can provide measurements of ground motions and infrastructure displacements at reduced costs and with sub-millimetric accuracy, without any sensors installed on site.

The remarkable advances in this research field during the last decade make it timely to announce a Special Issue devoted to civil infrastructure monitoring and management based on satellite technology and decision support systems.

This Special Issue encourages high-quality contributions addressing the current state of the art, recent advances, applications, case studies, and future trends in infrastructure management based on satellite technology. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: methods, frameworks, tools, and platforms for satellite data processing, visualization, and data fusion with monitoring data from terrestrial technologies; interpretation of infrastructure response and compensation of environmental effects; risk assessment, early warning, and decision support for cost-effective maintenance prioritization based on satellite data; relevant applications to real-life case studies.

Dr. Daniel Tonelli
Dr. Cristian Rossi
Guest Editors

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