Remote Sensing in Earth Surface Changes and Deformations Caused by Earthquake and Landslide (Third Edition)

Dear Colleagues,

The occurrence of earthquake and landslide events often leads to significant surface changes, and understanding these changes is of great significance for post-disaster early warning, prevention, and risk management. In addition, surface deformations before, during, and after earthquake and landslide events provide useful information for the interpretation and evaluation of disasters. With the rapid development of earth observation technology, the types of hyperspectral, multi-polarization, high spatial, and temporal resolution sensors are becoming increasingly abundant, and the volume of data is increasing explosively, providing important support for the monitoring and investigation of earth surface changes and deformations.

Contactless devices are not invasive, and they allow for measuring without access to the study area, which is a superior advantage as earth surface changes and deformations often occur in remote areas and can be potentially dangerous or accessible with difficulty. Today, remote sensing data play a large role in geosciences. With recent advancements in technologies such as UAVs, multi-band high-resolution satellite images, and multi-polarization microwave-based SAR images coupled with state-of-the-art machine learning tools, the application of observing and mapping earth surface changes and deformations has become more popular.

The aim of this Special Issue is to collect the most recent research on remote sensing applications in earth sciences. In particular, this Special Issue is dedicated to satellite, aerial, and terrestrial contactless devices for the observation and evaluation of earth surface changes and deformations caused by earthquakes and landslides, as well as new processing techniques related to remote sensing. We invite you to submit scientific, technological, or review articles focused on recent research within one or more of these topics:

• Detection of earth surface changes—multitemporal remote sensing;
• Mapping, modeling, and/or monitoring approaches in earth surface changes and deformations;
• Evaluating the earth surface status and creating novel solutions by integrating remote sensing and GIS techniques;
• Remote sensing of earthquake and landslide deformation monitoring.

This is the third edition of this Special Issue; experts and scholars in related fields are welcome to submit their original works to this Special Issue.

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/Earthquake_and_Landslide_II

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/Earthquake_Landslide

Prof. Dr. Yi Wang
Prof. Dr. Jun Hu
Dr. Weile Li
Guest Editors

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• remote sensing
• earth surface change
• surface deformation
• earthquakes
• landslides
• hazard detection
• hazard mapping
• hazard evaluation

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