Application of Satellite Remote Sensing in Solving Urban Geo-Environmental Issues

Dear Colleagues,

In our rapidly changing world, it is of great significance to conduct an assessment of the susceptibility of urban and peri-urban areas to geo-environmental hazards such as landslides, collapses, floods, soil erosion, coastal erosion and earthquakes for hazard prevention and mitigation. Moreover, geohazards, especially landslides, but also erosion, karsts and active faults may pose severe constraints for the structural integrity of crucial infrastructures.

This Special Issue focuses on the potential of remote sensing (RS) and Earth observation (EO) to visualize and solve urban and peri-urban geo-environmental issues with the aim to protect the urban population which is becoming more and more vulnerable to disasters.

Remote sensing offers several state-of-the-art technologies (multispectral, hyperspectral, thermal, and radar), techniques (field and laboratory measurements, simulations, satellite, and UAVs), and image processing methods that can contribute on modeling and mapping the geo-environmental phenomena in space and time.

Consequently the many sources of remote sensing and Earth observation data are combined with auxiliary data (e.g. geophysical, hydrological, meteorological and soil data) usually in a GIS environment in order either to map, analyze or/and estimate the spatiotemporal distribution characteristics of geo-hazards.

Authors are encouraged to submit articles on, but not limited to, the following subjects:

• Detection of geo-environmental changes – multitemporal remote sensing.
• Multisensors onboard satellites or UAVs: multispectral, hyperspectral, radar and thermal.
• GIS mapping, modeling and/or monitoring approaches in geo-environmental hazards. 
• Assessing the geo-environmental status and creating innovative solutions using integration between RS and GIS techniques.
• Remote Sensing Indices (e.g. Built-Up Indices, Vegetation Indices, Thermal Indices).
• Cultural heritage management and protection.
• Site selection for infrastructures (e.g. pipelines).

Dr. Maria Kouli
Guest Editor

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