Remote Sensing and GIS for Geological Hazards Assessment
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2022) | Viewed by 15683
Special Issue Editors
Interests: numerical simulation of geological hazards; hazard prevention and mitigation; hazard detection using RS; hazard assessment
Interests: disaster data science and risk assessment; disaster information system and emergency management
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Dear Colleagues,
Mitigation and prevention against geological hazards, e.g., landslides, debris flows, and collapse, are strongly dependent on hazard assessment and management. The use of remote sensing (RS) and geographic information systems (GISs), providing abilities for spatial and temporal data and relevant analysis tools, has become an integrated and beneficial solution for this purpose. They all contribute in a complementary way to traditional geological hazard assessment methods.
This Special Issue aims to provide an overview and share state-of-the-art and scientific knowledge in recent research and applications in RS and GIS for geological hazard assessment. The topics include new concepts, models, technologies, and recent case studies using GIS and RS techniques to study monitoring, mapping, risk evaluation, and assessment of geological hazards, as well as their disaster chains. These topics can be studied at different scales, from regional to the individual hazard, always looking for a novel vision oriented toward a better understanding, recognition, and risk assessment of geological hazards.
Themes of interest comprise (but are not limited to) the following potential topics:
- Applications of new Earth observation products, non-contacting technologies for identifying and detecting geological hazards;
- Advances in geological hazard risk assessment models boosted by machine learning;
- Geological hazard assessment methods coupling RS and GIS;
- GIS-based numerical simulation for reproducing geological processes and delineation of hazard extent;
- Latest practical uses for remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS) for geological hazard assessment.
Prof. Dr. Zheng Han
Prof. Dr. Baofeng Di
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- geological hazard
- remote sensing
- geographic information system
- risk assessment
- statistical and machine learning methods
- GIS-based hazard modeling
- risk assessment model
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