Next-Generation Geophysical Sensing
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Intelligent Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 October 2026 | Viewed by 193
Special Issue Editors
Interests: earth observation; applied geophysics; UAS platform; data modeling; volcano modeling
Interests: earth observation; satellite image processing; geophysics; spatial analysis; mapping models
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue “Next-Generation Geophysical Sensing” focuses on recent advances in sensors and methodologies for the observation, monitoring, and interpretation of natural and anthropogenic processes using geophysical data. Rapid progress in electronics, advanced materials, miniaturization, system integration, data processing, and modelling is significantly reshaping geophysical data acquisition and analysis. These developments are opening new perspectives for scientific, environmental, and industrial applications, while enabling more accurate, continuous, and spatially and temporally distributed observations.
This Special Issue welcomes contributions addressing next-generation geophysical sensors, non-conventional survey design, and data integration approaches, considering a wide range of ground-based, marine, unmanned aerial systems (UAS), airborne, and satellite measurement platforms. Contributions are encouraged in both terrestrial and planetary contexts.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the development and validation of innovative geophysical sensors, distributed and intelligent sensor networks, wireless and autonomous systems, measurement platforms, and instrumentation designed for extreme environments and space missions.
Particular emphasis is placed on advanced signal processing, data integration, and interpretation techniques, including artificial intelligence and data fusion approaches. These methods aim to enhance spatial and temporal resolution, improve measurement reliability, enable the detection of complex and transient phenomena, and advance data interpretation and modelling workflows.
Applications may span a broad range of fields, such as volcanology, subsurface characterization, environmental geophysics, natural hazard assessment, archaeo-geophysics, planetary exploration, and energy transition, including monitoring for renewable energy resources and CCS.
The Special Issue is therefore open to contributions involving all geophysical methods (active and passive seismics, potential field methods, electromagnetic methods, etc.), including interdisciplinary studies to address future scientific and societal needs.
Dr. Andrea Barone
Dr. Maurizio Milano
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- geophysical sensors
- distributed sensor networks
- UAS platform
- applied geophysics
- planetary geophysics
- energy transition
- natural hazard
- data fusion
- artificial intelligence
- data modelling
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