Advances in Remote Sensing and GIS for Natural Hazards Monitoring and Management
A special issue of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (ISSN 2220-9964).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 11447
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental applications of remote sensing; atmospheric correction; air quality assessment/monitoring; aerosols; natural hazards; land cover/use change; GIS; spatial data analysis; climate change; natural disasters and extremes; desertification; precision farming; soil erosion
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Interests: remote sensing; GIS; geomorphology; landscape ecology; landscape archaeology; soil erosion; land cover/land use change; natural hazards monitoring
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Earth observation (EO) and GIS have proven to be powerful tools for monitoring, mapping, and assessing the impacts of natural hazards. Recently, there has been a vast availability of EO data from multiple sources (i.e., satellite, aerial, UAV, Lidar) that has assisted scientists in providing timely, accurate, and spatially explicit information on various hazards. This is particularly true in data-scarce environments, thanks to the great advantage of sensing extended areas at low cost and with regular revisit capability. Although EO already plays a critical role in a wide variety of disaster activities, challenges remain in methods or algorithms required to monitor, map, model, and assess.
This Special Issue is open to a diverse range of contributions on recent advances in the application of remote sensing and GIS methods for the monitoring/mapping/modeling/assessment/mitigation of natural hazards, such as landslides, floods, wildfires, droughts, and erosion. Methods for the development of algorithms for data processing/interpretation and the presentation of case studies are welcome. We invite submissions that may include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Mapping of (historical) events;
- (Near) real-time hazard monitoring;
- Remote sensing for hazard/vulnerability/risk analysis mapping and damage assessment;
- Single/multi-hazard detection, modeling, vulnerability, and prediction;
- Applications in support of disaster risk reduction and adaptation strategies;
- Fusion of remotely sensed imagery for disaster applications.
Dr. Adrianos Retalis
Dr. Dimitrios D. Alexakis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural hazard
- disasters (floods, landslides, earthquakes, erosion, wildfires, droughts, etc.).
- vulnerability
- emergency response
- remote sensing
- Earth observation
- GIS
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Planned Papers
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Title: Evacuation Transport Provision Design Using Network Analysis with GIS Support
Authors: Jozef Kubás; Boris Kollár; Katarína Petrlová; Alexandra Trličíková; Kateřina Blažková
Affiliation: Department of Crisis Management, Faculty of Security Engineering, University of Žilina
Abstract: Evacuation is an important element of protection of the population in the event of crisis events and failure of protective measures. This paper focuses on the design of transport provision for evacuation during a special flood caused by an accident at a water structure using GIS-enabled network analysis. Freely available data on population and address points were used to calculate the number of inhabitants at risk for the purpose of transport security planning. Using the PERT method, three scenarios for the time required for each evacuation activity were determined and the time required for evacuation was determined using a Gantt chart. The approach proposed in the paper is suitable for obtaining relatively fast results that can be considered in preparation for crisis events. The results of the case study proved that the evacuation can be accomplished in the necessary time but revealed possible shortcomings of the proposed approach. These shortcomings are discussed, with possible alternative solutions and other factors influencing the evacuation planning process.