Earth Observations for Land Subsidence Identification, Monitoring and Their Contribute to Modeling

Dear Colleagues,

The goal of this Special Issue of Remote Sensing is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) to give insights about the use of Earth Observations (EO) for land subsidence identification, monitoring and how they impact modeling efforts for these processes.

Land subsidence represents the main reaction to superficial and deep deformations induced by multiple natural and anthropic phenomena (i.e. vadose zone processes as swelling/shrinkage of clay soils, soil consolidation, aquifer compaction, solid and fluid extraction and load-induced compaction etc.) which take place at different spatio-temporal scale. This kind of hazard affects an increasing number of worldwide regions, densely populated, causing damage to the environment and infrastructures.

Earth observations, including SAR approaches such as multi-temporal processing algorithms, represent a powerful tool for the geoscience community to investigate the land subsidence around the world, with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution.

Authors are encouraged to submit articles about innovative research or case studies which may include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• innovative methods to use Earth Observation, such as the exploitation of the great potential contained in the displacement time series for land subsidence identification;
• integrated monitoring system to measure ground deformation (land subsidence, uplift and seasonal movements);
• remote sensing support to understand the land subsidence mechanisms;
• land subsidence modeling.

Prof. Claudia Meisina
Prof. Francesco Zucca
Dr. Roberta Bonì
Guest Editors

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