Remote Sensing in Natural Hazard Exploration and Impact Assessment
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 119
Special Issue Editors
Interests: active tectonic; earthquake; natural hazards; geology; paleoenvironment; seismic hazards
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Interests: earth observation; GIS; agriculture; geomorphology; natural resources; disasters
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Interests: seismic hazard assessment; earthquake geology; remote sensing; structure from motion; tectonic geomorphology; earthquake catastrophe modeling; paleoseismology; UAV
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Interests: extreme events; flash flooding; flood mortality; risk perception; hydrogeomorphological disasters; landslides
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The uncontrollable expansion of urban areas has led to the constant growth of urban populations, resulting in increased exposure to numerous natural hazards. The natural disaster-related economic and human losses during the last century have been enormous. Enhancing the prevention efforts can lead to the reduction in losses both in terms of property and infrastructure losses and human losses. Especially in urban areas, there is an urgent need to increase prevention initiatives through constant monitoring and study of natural phenomena that can influence urban areas and their population.
Currently, advances in remote sensing techniques encompass state-of-the-art tools and applications, involving Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, and LiDAR (airborne and terrestrial), and have the potential to provide significant solutions in the field of natural hazard prevention. Advanced remote sensing offers a range of beneficial data to study natural disasters with higher spectral, temporal, and spatial resolution, as well as high accuracy and reliability information in a number of aspects included in natural risk management. This Special Issue aims to collect studies covering natural hazard management, prevention, and understanding in urban areas. More specifically, the main goal of this Special Issue is monitoring phenomena and natural hazards that can influence urban areas and threaten their population and their infrastructures.
Topics may cover anything from the conventional assessment and estimation of geological, geoenvironmental, and climate-related hazards to pandemic situations and health management issues. Hence, multiscale approaches or studies and interdisciplinary original research articles focused on natural hazards in urban environment monitoring are welcome. Articles may address, but are not limited, to the following topics:
- Remote sensing in flood exploration and impact assessment;
- UAV and LiDAR in natural hazard exploration;
- UAV in geomorphological mapping;
- Remote sensing and GIS applications in coastal area threats;
- Remote sensing and GIS applications in natural disasters and extreme events;
- Remote sensing and GIS applications in pandemic situations.
Dr. Aggelos Pallikarakis
Dr. Emmanouil Psomiadis
Dr. Georgios Deligiannakis
Dr. Michalis Diakakis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- forest fires and erosion
- pollution
- climate changes
- floods
- earthquakes and active faults
- liquefaction
- pandemic situations
- urban and coastal areas
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