Recent Advances in Remote Sensing Techniques for Natural Hazard Analysis
A special issue of Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Hazards".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2020) | Viewed by 10596
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent disasters around the world have once again put a focus on Natural Hazards and how society and communities, both prepare and react to catastrophe. Media attention often focused on death and losses highlight the need for a greater understanding of these processes as well as their local and global impacts. The use of Remote Sensing platforms, techniques, and datasets has revolutionized the modern Natural Hazards research field and is being recognized as a vital tool for the discipline.
Advancements in the use of Remote Sensing techniques in all Geoscience disciplines are happening at an accelerated pace every year. New technology, software, processing, and analyses, are being introduced and embraced by our discipline at a rapid speed. As urban sprawl and population growth continues in both developed and developing countries, more people worldwide are becoming exposed to higher levels of hazard and risk, including but not limited to: ground deformation and earthquakes, mass movements, tsunami inundation, volcanic flows, hurricanes, and flooding. This special issue will highlight some of the larger and most interesting advancements in Remote Sensing technology and analysis, with a focus on how these new concepts are impacting research in both Geosciences and Natural Hazards.
There have been a number of new satellites and constellation systems recording large volumes of new types of geo-spatial data, with new sensors, at higher resolutions, and better temporal return periods than at any other time in history. Our aim in this special issue is to bring these new ideas, datasets, and concepts to the forefront of Geoscience and Natural Hazard research, taking advantage of new technology, providing accurate and analytical remote sensing techniques on natural hazards around the world.
This special issue of Geosciences is designed to showcase the latest developments in the connections between geological and environmental sciences, hazard and risk, and new innovative remote sensing techniques, with a specific focus on the advancement of understanding of large scale natural disasters. We invite contributions addressing any of the following:
- New or revised analytical methods of processing remote sensing data for advancement of natural hazard research
- e.g. earthquake, mass movement, surface deformation, flooding, atmospheric, volcanic, and tsunami hazards
- Use of new or revised satellite or constellation datasets in natural hazards
- e.g. optical and/or SAR
- Hazard and/or risk assessment using advanced remote sensing techniques in regional or global settings
- Impact of climate change on natural hazards using advanced remote sensing techniques in regional or global settings
We are most interested in natural hazard studies which involve the quantification of topography (e.g. surface deformation from earthquake or other subsidence, or mass movements), mapping of damage from natural disasters (e.g. economic or infrastructure loss, deaths), and oceanic and atmospheric research (e.g. tsunami inundation and detection, hurricane formation and track, tornado detection and track). We also invite submissions that use remote sensing data and techniques to study the impact of geospatial risk, and how it propagates over time, within a specific region. All scales of spatial and temporal studies are acceptable, however, focus will be on higher resolution studies relying on very recently acquired data or on a compilation of archived and new data acquired from any of the standard or new remote sensing platforms (optical and/or SAR): satellite, air/drone, or terrestrial systems.
Dr. Keith B. Delaney
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Natural Hazards
- Remote Sensing
- InSAR
- Geo-spatial Analysis
- Earth Observation
- Risk
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