Open Special Issues:
The State-of-the-Art of Critical Infrastructures (CI) Monitoring/Protection
Geomatics (Tracked for IF)
The objective of the Special Issue is to provide an overview of the state of the art of CI monitoring/protection and natural or anthropogenic disaster management, deeply exploiting the capabilities of optical and SAR remote sensing. Outcomes can be represented by scenarios and what-if analyses, made available to scientists, stakeholders, and decision makers by means of innovative tools and applications (e.g., decision support platforms). Papers related to data interoperability, mining, and management are warmly welcome.
Keywords:
- critical infrastructures
satellite remote sensing
synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
SAR interferometry (InSAR)
landsat
hyperspectral sensors
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/geomatics/special_issues/A67VE8Q9E8
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025
Geomatics and Sustainability: Examples and Application in Urban and Landscape Management (Second Edition)
Land (IF: 3.2)
Following the success of the Special Issue “Geomatics and Sustainability: Examples and Application in Urban and Landscape Management”, we are happy to announce the opening of a second volume. Most of modern inland and coastal urban areas are strongly affected by anthropogenic impacts. Lifelines are critical infrastructures that need to provide essential services and security for both residential and migratory populations.
The main effect of this anthropization is the land use change and exploitation of natural resources that may have an impact on the climate and economy of entire countries. The ensemble of geomatics methodologies (mainly by means of GIS and remote sensing techniques) can provide several tools for monitoring and investigating the dynamics of complex processes and supporting stakeholders in decision making. Such phenomena include urban development, soil degradation and consumption, land cover changes, landscape dynamics, etc. Thus, these methodologies can enrich the geographical information available and support the development of more exhaustive analysis aiming at supporting effective urban and landscape management, which is a critical issue in our current “Anthropocene” age. Human activities are still the major cause of global environmental change. Particularly focusing on sustainability issues, geomatics represents a fundamental pillar for implementing interdisciplinary methodological workflows, so as to provide for and deepen our understanding of human/environment interrelations. These techniques (spatial modelling, geo-computational techniques, geographical analyses, etc.) therefore foster sustainable development planning and monitoring, and facilitate the decision-making process at all levels.
Thus, this Special Issue will assemble innovative and original contributions considering current research and activities related to the abovementioned Issues.
In this Special Issue, we invite papers focusing on, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Geomatics for analyzing territorial issues and spatio-temporal patterns;
- Urban, landscape, and natural resources management;
- Land–climate interaction;
- Natural hazards;
- Development of new algorithms and science-based criteria in the above-listed topics.
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/land/special_issues/Z2884C0L4G
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026
Closed Special Issues:
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Sustainability (I.F.: 3.3) |
This Sustainability Special Issue aims, therefore, to collect contributions on innovative approaches and methods for a resilient and sustainable prevention, mitigation, and adaptation of seismic risk.
Topics covered by this Special Issue, encompass, among others, the following:
(a) Seismic hazard assessment from the geophysical, seismological, and geotechnical viewpoint, welcoming contributions from scientists of the physical community and contributions on ground and remote monitoring technologies targeting the seismic microzoning and the characterisation of local seismic responses.
(b) Seismic vulnerability assessment of the existing built environment targeting both buildings and structures, with a particular focus on strategic and critical infrastructures.
(c) Innovative low-damage design approaches and technologies.
(d) Sustainable and energy efficient technologies for seismic retrofitting of existing structures and infrastructures.
(e) Structural health monitoring innovative sensors and approaches for data processing.
(f) Societal vulnerability assessment.
(g) Innovative approaches for promoting education, awareness and capacity building in communities.
(h) Innovative frameworks, strategies and tools to support an effective and timely emergency management, and a resilient response and recovery.
(i) Best practices and lesson learnt (including evidences on what went wrong and can, therefore, be improved) after recent catastrophic events.
(j) Seismic risk mitigation policies and risk-based insurance.
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RS and GIS for Monitoring and Enhancing the Resilience of Urban Heritage Remote Sensing (I.F.: 5.349) |
This Special Issue aims to collect articles with case studies and methodological studies to cover the different fields in which GIS analysis, remote sensing techniques, and spatial decision support systems can find application in the urban environment. Topics may include the monitoring of urban heritage subject to natural hazards and threats related to climate change, as well as those induced by human activities. The following a list of more potential topics:
- The effects of air pollution on people and building materials;
- The effects of urban heat islands on people;
- Protection of the built environment against seismic risk;
- The monitoring of cultural assets subjected to anthropic activities;
- GIS approaches and platforms for monitoring critical infrastructure/assets in urban areas;
- Remote sensing applications in urban environments;
- Damage assessment and loss estimation.
Open Access: free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions.
High Visibility: indexed within Scopus, SCIE (Web of Science), Ei Compendex, PubAg, GeoRef, Astrophysics Data System, Inspec, dblp, and other databases..
Journal Rank: JCR - Q1 (Geosciences, Multidisciplinary) / CiteScore - Q1 (General Earth and Planetary Sciences)
https://www.mdpi.com/si/175069
Geomatics and Sustainability: Examples and Application in Urban and Landscape Management
Land (I.F.: 3.905)
The ensemble of geomatics methodologies (mainly by means of GIS and remote sensing techniques) can provide several tools for monitoring and investigating the dynamics of complex processes and supporting stakeholders in
decision making. Such phenomena include urban development, soil degradation and consumption, land cover changes, landscape dynamics, etc.
In this Special Issue, we invite papers focusing on, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Geomatics for analyzing territorial issues and spatio-temporal patterns;
- Urban, landscape, and natural resources management;
- Land–climate interaction;
- Natural hazards;
- Development of new algorithms and science-based criteria in the above-listed topics.
Open Access: free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions.
High Visibility: indexed within Scopus, SSCI (Web of Science), AGRICOLA, AGRIS, GeoRef, RePEc, and many other databases.
Journal Rank: JCR - Q2 (Environmental Studies) / CiteScore - Q2 (Nature and Landscape Conservation)
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/land/special_issues/geomatics_landscape
Geomatics in Forestry and Agriculture: New Advances and Perspectives
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information - lJGI
In the last decade, geomatics science has experienced explosive growth thanks to the great diffusion of UAVs and the increasing accessibility to free and low-cost satellite remote sensed multispectral data. Geomatics methodologies and techniques (i.e., GIS combined with remote sensing) are essential to explore and characterize agriculture and forestry in the frame of various applications and analyses: agroforestry land survey and mapping, land use/land cover dynamics, urban/rural interactions, landscape planning and management, land suitability assessment, spatial decision support systems, and precision agriculture and forestry. The present Special Issue would like to show and compare different approaches, existing operative proposals, and cases studies concerning Geomatics (GIS, WebGIS, RS) and UAV applications to agriculture and forestry.
Keywords:
- geomatics
- agroforestry
- sustainable planning
- spatial data processing and fusion
- multispectral, hyperspectral, and thermal RS in agroforestry
- multicriteria spatial decision support systems for environmental decision making
- agroforestry land survey and mapping using UAVs
- precision agriculture and forestry
Open Access: free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions.
High Visibility: indexed within Scopus, SCIE (Web of Science), GeoRef, PubAg, dblp, Astrophysics Data System, Inspec, and other databases.
Journal Rank: JCR - Q2 (Geography, Physical) / CiteScore - Q1 (Geography, Planning and Development)
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/geomatics_forestry_agriculture
Sustainability
Nowadays complex and highly organised societies pose new challenges for research and development. The target in seismic risk prevention is in guaranteeing undamaged or low-damaged infrastructures and buildings, to preserve their contents and service, and in empowering communities to become resilient by
promoting their awareness and capacities. This in the aim of continuing living and working in the aftermath of a severe seismic event, and guaranteeing a resilient recovery after a catastrophic event by resuming timely pre-disaster conditions and/or by promoting an improved new-normal, where changes imposed by the disaster are turned into opportunities for positive changes. In this perspective, just to provide some examples: sustainable urban planning for risk mitigation should be promoted; the conservation of cultural heritage buildings that do not satisfy current safety requirements should be considered and pursued by changing.
This Special Issue aims to collect contributions on innovative methods for resilient and sustainable prevention, mitigation and adaptation of seismic risk.
The Special Issue will be structured into three different Sections, each devoted to a specific domain which the issue topic compels to consider:
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Part 1: Geological and geophysical aspects
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Part 2: Structural aspects (infrastructure, strategic structures, …)
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Part 3: Prevention, risk analysis a disaster management.
Open Access: free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions.
High Visibility: indexed within Scopus, SCIE and SSCI (Web of Science), GEOBASE, GeoRef, Inspec, AGRIS, RePEc, CAPlus / SciFinder, and other databases.
Journal Rank: JCR - Q2 (Environmental Sciences) / CiteScore - Q1 (Geography, Planning and Development)
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