Theodolites are fundamental geodetic measuring instruments for all practical geodetic tasks, as well as for experimental geodetic scientific purposes. Their development has a long history. Photo and video theodolites represent the advanced developmen...
The current constellation of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) consists of five geostationary earth orbit (GEO) satellites, five inclined geosynchronous satellite orbit (IGSO) satellites, and four medium earth orbit (MEO) satellites. The a...
Heavy burdens are placed on runways daily; thus, it is necessary to monitor these surfaces regularly. The appearance of distortions can cause difficulties for aircraft when they land or take off, which occurs mainly for lighter planes. This can be se...
Integrated geo- and environmental monitoring in mining represents a high-dimensional challenge (location, altitude/depth, time and sensors). This is challenging for experts but poses great problems for a multitude of participants and stakeholders in...
Monitoring hazardous phenomena is a fundamental requirement of disaster risk management. Using new geomatic technologies integrated into complex geo information systems represents an innovative method of strengthening collaboration between stakeholde...
Mining-induced or enhanced geo-hazards (MGHs) pose significant risks in rural mountainous regions with underground mining operations by harming groundwater layers, water circulation systems, and mountain stability. MGHs occurring in naturally contami...
Geo-information technology has been playing an increasingly important role in environmental monitoring in recent decades. With the continuous improvement in the spatial resolution of remote sensing images, the diversification of sensors and the devel...
Geo-Kompsat-2A (GK-2A) is the third new-generation geostationary meteorological satellite that orbits Asia and monitors China and its surrounding areas, following the Himawari-8 and Fengyun-4A satellites. The nadir point positioning and satellite cha...
In this work, we combine SAR and optical images for geo-hazard detection and monitoring in Western China. An extremely small baseline of C-band SAR image pairs acquired from Sentinel-1A at Menyuan, China, is analyzed. Apart from the large area of cos...
The epidemic disease of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) called COVID-19 has become a more frequently active disease. Managing and monitoring COVID-19 patients is still a challenging issue for advanced technologies. The first and foremost cri...
Despite the wealth of data produced by previous and current Earth Observation platforms feeding climate models, weather forecasts, disaster monitoring services and countless other applications, the public still lacks the ability to access a live, tru...
Climate change is already being felt in Europe, unequivocally affecting the regions’ geo-structures. Concern over this is rising, as reflected in the increasing number of studies on the subject. However, the majority of these studies focused on...
In the field of geo-hazards and geo-engineering, monitoring networks represent a key element for the geological risk assessment and the design and management of large infrastructures construction. In the last decade, we have observed a strong develop...
The development of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI), combining deep learning and remote sensing imagery, is of great interest for automated spatial inference and decision-making support. In this paper, a GeoAI-based efficient object detecti...
Civil engineering assets and geo-structures continually deteriorate during their lifetime, particularly in harsh environments that may be contaminated with corrosive substances. However, efficient and constant structural health monitoring and accurat...
This paper deals with the problem of geodetic monitoring of structures by means of permanent GNSS stations, with a focus on a specific project of monitoring a bridge by a small network of three stations. What is peculiar about this paper is that the...
Multi-source agricultural land-cover mapping is important for food-system monitoring, sustainable land management, and climate-adaptation planning, yet obtaining reliable labels remains difficult in heterogeneous landscapes. This paper presents a cli...
Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is a relatively new branch of civil engineering that focuses on assessing the health status of infrastructure, such as long-span bridges. Using a broad range of in-situ monitoring instruments, the purpose of the SHM...
There is a need to validate existing global cropland maps since they are used for different purposes including agricultural monitoring and assessment. In this paper we validate three recent global products (ESA-CCI, GlobeLand30, FROM-GC) and one regi...
Rapid urbanization in coastal regions presents complex challenges for environmental management and public safety. Accurate, high-resolution wind field monitoring is critical for urban disaster mitigation, infrastructure resilience, and pollutant disp...
Mapping cropland areas is of great interest in diverse fields, from crop monitoring to climate change and food security. Recognizing the value of a reliable and harmonized crop mask that entirely covers the African continent, the objectives of this s...
High-rate multi-constellation global navigation satellite system (GNSS) precise point positioning (PPP) has been recognized as an efficient and reliable technique for large earthquake monitoring. However, the displacements derived from PPP are often...
Illegal dumping poses serious risks to ecosystems and human health, requiring effective and timely monitoring strategies. Advances in uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs), photogrammetry, and deep learning (DL) have created new opportunities for detecting...
Greenbelt monitoring requires both the detection of physical change and its interpretation against parcel and administrative records. This study develops a multistage GeoAI–GIS workflow for that purpose and examines its application in Siheung,...
Reservoirs are critical infrastructure for water and energy security, and require accurate and timely monitoring of reservoir water extent to make informed decisions. Optical remote sensing provides frequent, large-area observations; however, automat...
Implementation of Structural Health Monitoring systems on long-span bridges has become mandatory in many countries to ascertain the safety of these structures and the public, taking into account an increase in usage and threats due to extreme loading...
Logging, including selective and illegal activities, is widespread, affecting the carbon cycle and the biodiversity of tropical forests. However, automated approaches using very high resolution (VHR) satellite data (≤1 m spatial resolution) to acc...
A worldwide issue directly affecting human health, resources, and ecosystems concerns the harmful consequences of anthropogenic and geo-environmental influences on the hydrosphere [...]
Fixed video camera systems are consistently prone to importune motions over time due to either thermal effects or mechanical factors. Even subtle displacements are mostly overlooked or ignored, although they can lead to large geo-rectification errors...
Large-scale monitoring of land rights remains constrained by substantial time requirements, limited spatial coverage, and considerable human resource demands associated with conventional image interpretation and field verification. This study develop...
Operationalizing Earth Observation (EO)-based Machine Learning (ML) algorithms (or GeoML) for ingestion in environmental Digital Twins remains a challenging task due to the complexities associated with balancing real-time inference with cost, data, a...
To address the challenge of obtaining high-spatiotemporal-resolution and high-precision temperature grids for agricultural meteorological monitoring, this research focuses on rice heat stress monitoring with the China Meteorological Administration La...
Drought is a continuous process in Thar Desert, Pakistan. The extent of this drought needs to be assessed for future land use and adaptation. The effect of previous drought on vegetation cover of the Thar region was studied, through combined use of d...
Marine turtle and cetacean strandings along the Italian coastline represent critical ecological events that require systematic documentation, yet historical data have suffered from fragmentation and poor accessibility across heterogeneous archives. G...
In this study, we explored the characteristics of thermal anomalies other than biomass burning to establish a zone map of false-positive active fires to support efficient ground validation for firefighters. We used the ASCII file of VIIRS active fire...
Various GNSS applications require low-cost, small-scale, lightweight and power-saving GNSS devices and require high precision in terms of low noise for carrier phase and code observations. Applications vary from navigation approaches to positioning i...
The Huaibei region is a critical grain and energy–chemical base in northern China, characterized by substantial water demand for industrial and agricultural production. Karst groundwater systems constitute the primary water supply source in thi...
Since 2011, massive stranding of the brown algae Sargassum has regularly affected the coastal waters of the West Caribbean, Brazil, and West Africa, leading to heavy environmental and socio-economic impacts. Ocean color remote sensing observations as...
Direct and indirect effects after mine operations cease operating must ideally be subjected to perpetual monitoring routines in order to detect possible risks or avoid adverse effects on the surrounding ecosystems at an early stage. In this contribut...
TRIM4Post-Mining is a H2020/RFCS-funded project that brings together a consortium of European experts from industry and academia to develop an integrated information modelling system. This is designed to support decision making and planning during th...
The solid backfilling mining method is one of the methods used to solve problems arising from strata and ground subsidence in underground mines. Through 2D physical analog modeling, 3D numerical simulation, and field measurement, the effects of the s...
Nowadays, the increasing demand to collect, manage and share archives of data supporting geo-hydrological processes investigations requires the development of spatial data infrastructure able to store geospatial data and ground deformation measuremen...
Landslides, often a side effect of mining activities, pose a significant risk to humans and infrastructures such as urban areas, power lines, and dams. Operational ground motion monitoring can help detect the spatial pattern of surface changes and th...
The La Grande River watershed, located in the James Bay region (54°N, Quebec, Canada), is a major contributor to the production of hydroelectricity in the province. Peatlands cover up to 20% of the terrestrial environment in this region. Their hydrol...
The role and importance of geodesists in the planning and building of civil engineering constructions are well known. However, the importance and benefits of collected data during maintenance in exploitation have arisen in the last thirty years due p...
Soil temperature (ST) is a key regulator of crop growth, microbial activity, and soil biogeochemical processes, making its accurate estimation critical for agricultural monitoring. Focusing on the Huang-Huai-Hai (HHH) Plain, a major grain-producing r...
Persistent Scatterer Deformation Pattern Analysis Tool, for short PSDefoPAT, was designed to assign each measuring point of an advanced DInSAR data set a best-fitting time series model based on its displacement time series. In this paper, we will out...
Vegetation encroachment in power line corridors remains a major challenge for modern energy-dependent societies, as it can cause power outages and lead to significant financial losses. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a promising solut...
In order to improve the observation capability in one of the most active volcanic areas in the world, Mt. Etna, we developed a processing method to use the surveillance cameras for a quasi real-time mapping of syn-eruptive processes. Following an eva...
All over the world, the rapid urbanization process is challenging the sustainable development of our cities. In 2015, the United Nation highlighted in Goal 11 of the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) the importance to “Make cities inclusive,...
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