BACKGROUND The solid Earth, oceans, and atmosphere together form a complex
interacting geosystem. Processes relevant to understanding Earth's geosystem behavior …

China has a significant portion of land in landslide-prone areas, and remote sensing
technologies are becoming a tool of choice to investigate and monitor landslides. Although …

Laser scanning can provide timely assessments of mine sites despite adverse challenges in
the operational environment. Although there are several published articles on laser …

Landslides represent major natural hazards, which cause every year significant loss of lives
and damages to buildings, properties and lifelines. In the last decades, a significant increase …

In the last two decades, significant research has been conducted in the field of automated
extraction of rock mass discontinuity characteristics from three-dimensional (3D) models …

Remote sensing techniques (eg, terrestrial laser scanning and digital photogrammetry) have
been developed and applied rapidly in recent years for identification and analysis of rock …

The routine application of remote surveying techniques which can quickly acquire 3D digital
data with high resolution, in particular digital photogrammetry, light detection and ranging …

Rockfall event is common on rocky terrain, and it threatens people. Recent advances in
remote sensing technologies allow us to model the terrain with high accuracy and …

New-generation intelligent construction places higher demands on digitisation and
intelligence of tunnel. Digital twin (DT) effectively supports high-fidelity modelling, virtual-real …

Discontinuity extraction and interpretation of fractured masses is of high importance when
analyzing rock slope stability. Regarding high-steep slopes, which are areas that are difficult …