Earth Observations for Geohazards

Earth Observations for Geohazards

Author: Zhenhong Li

Publisher: MDPI

Published: 2018-07-05

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 303842398X

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This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Earth Observations for Geohazards" that was published in Remote Sensing)


Earth Observation Data Cubes

Earth Observation Data Cubes

Author: Gregory Giuliani

Publisher: MDPI

Published: 2020-03-16

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 3039280929

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Satellite Earth observation (EO) data have already exceeded the petabyte scale and are increasingly freely and openly available from different data providers. This poses a number of issues in terms of volume (e.g., data volumes have increased 10× in the last 5 years); velocity (e.g., Sentinel-2 is capturing a new image of any given place every 5 days); and variety (e.g., different types of sensors, spatial/spectral resolutions). Traditional approaches to the acquisition, management, distribution, and analysis of EO data have limitations (e.g., data size, heterogeneity, and complexity) that impede their true information potential to be realized. Addressing these big data challenges requires a change of paradigm and a move away from local processing and data distribution methods to lower the barriers caused by data size and related complications in data management. To tackle these issues, EO data cubes (EODC) are a new paradigm revolutionizing the way users can store, organize, manage, and analyze EO data. This Special Issue is consequently aiming to cover the most recent advances in EODC developments and implementations to broaden the use of EO data to larger communities of users, support decision-makers with timely and actionable information converted into meaningful geophysical variables, and ultimately unlock the information power of EO data.


Remote Sensing for Characterization of Geohazards and Natural Resources

Remote Sensing for Characterization of Geohazards and Natural Resources

Author: Estelle Chaussard

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 607

ISBN-13: 3031593065

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This book provides insights from a geoscientist’s perspective into the benefits and the potential of remote sensing methods to address problems with a high social impact: identifying the drivers of geohazards and developing new methods for monitoring natural resources. The fields covered include volcanic hazards, seismic hazards, landslide hazards, land subsidence hazards and monitoring of natural resources through the use and combination of various remote sensing techniques and modelling approaches. This book should spark collaborations and encourage readers to think beyond disciplines or techniques, as well as enable readers to build their own workflow depending on their study of interest. It provides a much-needed comprehensive review of recent advances that remote sensing methods have brought to geohazards and resources research. It is unique in the way that it unifies geohazards and natural resources research to highlight cross-field advancements and potential areas for multiple fields of science to collaborate. The book intends to provide both a basic understanding of the remote sensing methods used in geohazards and natural resources sciences, with appropriate referencing for readers wishing to further their technique-specific learning, and a detailed application of these methods to a variety of sustainability problems. It aims at providing the reader with workflows for combining multiple techniques with demonstrated results in a variety of disciplines. This approach makes the book useful for both students learning about geohazards and resources, learning about remote sensing methods, and for researchers intending to expand their skill set using methods that have been applied to other fields. This book provides an introduction to each remote sensing method with references for in-depth technical learning which will benefit students in Remote Sensing courses.


Dynamic Planet

Dynamic Planet

Author: Paul Tregoning

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-01-15

Total Pages: 922

ISBN-13: 3540493506

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