A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Engineering Remote Sensing".
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Dr. Mariano Lisi
Dr. Mariano Lisi
National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis (IMAA), C.da Santa Loja, 85050 Tito Scalo (PZ), Italy
Interests: systems of Earth observation by using satellite sensors; remote sensing data interpretation and validation for geohazard and environmental applications; multitemporal time-series techniques; volcanology; seismic hazard monitoring
Dr. Katsumi Hattori
Dr. Katsumi Hattori
Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, 1-33, Yayoi, Inage, Chiba 263-8522, Japan
Interests: earthquake forecast; geophysics; signal processing; remote sensing; earthquake precursor phenomena
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Dr. Nicola Genzano
Dr. Nicola Genzano
School of Engineering, University of Basilicata, Via dell'Ateneo Lucano 10, 85100 Potenza, Italy
Interests: satellite remote sensing; natural hazards; earthquake risks; volcano monitoring
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Dr. Rossana Paciello
Dr. Rossana Paciello
National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Via di Vigna Murata 605, 00143 Roma, Italy
Interests: earth observation (EO) data processing and image analysis; interoperability of systems through standard metadata and web services; information and knowledge management systems, data models and metadata catalogues; research infrastructures architecture design and implementation
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Dr. Teodosio Lacava
Dr. Teodosio Lacava
Senior Researcher, Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis, National Research Council of Italy, 85050 Tito Scalo, PZ, Italy
Interests: multi-sensor optical and microwave remote sensing; natural hazards; climate changes; hydrogeological risk; water quality assessment
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Natural and man-made hazards have increasingly affected communities worldwide in recent decades. Some of these hazard events are likely to further increase in frequency and/or magnitude due to climate change. Moreover, hazards may also occur concurrently or sequentially in time and space, generating cascading and/or compounding events that are potentially more dangerous than single hazard events.
Although it seems clear that the management of these disasters cannot be given exclusively in emergency phases, efforts are still required to implement sustainable disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies allowing for an increased level of preparedness for response and recovery and, thus, the capacity for resilience of at least those areas most prone to natural disasters.
The relevance of DRR in achieving sustainable development as well as the roadmap to reducing the impacts on human lives and the economy has been highlighted by the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, which explicitly promotes the use of space-based technologies as a suitable way to gather data needed to elaborate information on hazard exposure, vulnerability, and risk and, hence, as an indispensable source of information to support decision-making related to disasters.
In this regard, Earth observation (EO) technologies have been widely integrated within disaster risk management systems in recent years, thanks to the growing availability of data/products of high quality and accuracy, as well as of advanced systems for their analysis/development, allowing the assessment of hazards and risk at multiple scales ranging from global to community levels.
Focusing on EO remote sensing systems, in the present Special Issue, we welcome all publications related to the innovative use of recent technologies, sensors/data, algorithms, and strategies supporting disaster risk management in one or more phases of its cycle (including disaster preparation, response, recovery, and mitigation).
In particular, submissions are encouraged which cover a wide range of subjects related to disaster phenomena, vulnerability, and risk studies, which may include but are not limited to the following topics:
Dr. Mariano Lisi
Dr. Katsumi Hattori
Dr. Nicola Genzano
Dr. Rossana Paciello
Dr. Teodosio Lacava
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