Remote Sensing in Support of Crisis Management: How Space-Based Information Can Support Operations and the Decision-Making Process

Dear Colleagues,

Recent emergencies, such as pandemics, wars, and droughts resulting from heat waves, and, more in general, the effects of the climate change, have forced many governments over the years to study, design, and develop recovery and prevention measures. These critical events have mixed and heavy impacts on the environment, population, and economic activities, affecting urban geographical areas but also open countryside, mountain peak, sea, and ocean environments, as well as the arctic regions.

Studying how social, economic, climate, and environmental factors are affected and how they may vary across different geographical areas is crucial, also in the view of implemented and planned counter measures. Decision-makers require tools to understand these crises and their impact and to identify the most suitable way to recover from and prevent them. Remote sensing can provide valuable support, enabling the development of monitoring and forecast models/indices in support of ground measurements and observations.

Remote sensing allows us to detect, measure, and model changes and events that occur on the Earth’s surface and in the atmosphere.

We would like to invite you to contribute papers focusing on the impact of climate change and critical events such as droughts, forest fires, ice melting, floods, Land Surface Temperature (LST), air pollution, and other manmade and natural risks and their consequences affecting stability and economic aspects.

We encourage the submission of papers which test and analyze different geospatial methods and methodologies, including big data analytics, space-time modelling and simulation, environmental modelling, data visualization, hot-spot analysis, and change detection, both with the help of open source and non-open source software.

Dr. Valerio Baiocchi
Dr. Roberta Onori
Dr. Erica Nocerino
Guest Editors

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• LST
• air pollutants
• environment
• climate
• heat islands
• lockdown periods
• change detection
• hot-spot analysis
• seismic events
• emergencies