Abstract
The fast proliferation of new satellite, aerial and terrestrial remote sensing techniques has undoubtedly provided new technological and scientific opportunities to society during the last few decades. [...]
Highlights
The fast proliferation of new satellite, aerial and terrestrial remote sensing techniques has undoubtedly provided new technological and scientific opportunities to society during the last few decades
Classical photogrammetric workflows are being progressively replaced by Structure-from-Motion (SfM) workflows imported from computer vision disciplines, allowing much higher versatility and usability by non-experts [3,4]
The output of these techniques—3D point clouds, i.e., high resolution three-dimensional sets of data points defined by X, Y and Z coordinates—are progressively being used in different branches of Earth sciences, including geomorphology, engineering geology, stratigraphy, tectonics, mining, etc
Summary
The fast proliferation of new satellite, aerial and terrestrial remote sensing techniques has undoubtedly provided new technological and scientific opportunities to society during the last few decades. Several avenues of research have been opened with the development of new automatic or semi-automatic techniques for more advanced observation, monitoring, modelling and prediction of natural phenomena, considerably impacting our society. This Special Issue contains a collection of articles discussing the use of three-dimensional remote sensing techniques for the investigation diverse geo-hazards. Leads to the question whether the LiDAR literature is growing significantly faster than the rest of the To answer this question,To the number ofquestion, referencesthe related to laser scanningrelated has been by the geoscientific literature.
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