Rockfall inventories are essential to quantify a rockfall activity and characterize the hazard.
Terrestrial laser scanning and advancements in processing algorithms have resulted in …

High-resolution remote monitoring of slopes using terrestrial LiDAR and photogrammetry is
a valuable tool for the management of civil and mining geotechnical asset hazards, but …

This book provides a general survey of Geocryology, which is the study of frozen ground
called permafrost. Frozen ground is the product of cold climates as well as a variety of …

Chinese classical gardens, which contain various landscape elements and complicated
spaces, are an important component of both gardens worldwide and culture heritage sites …

Unmanned aerial photogrammetric surveys are increasingly being used for map** and
studying natural hazards, such as rockfalls. Surveys using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) …

Increasing development of accurate and efficient road three-dimensional (3D) modeling
presents great opportunities to improve the data exchange and integration of building …

Accurate topographic surveys that rely on traditional field-based methods (eg Total Station
and Global Positioning System) are generally time consuming, challenging and costly …

Long‐range terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) is an emerging method for the monitoring of
alpine slopes in the vicinity of infrastructure. Nevertheless, deformation monitoring of alpine …

Nowadays the use of remote monitoring sensors is a standard practice in landslide
characterization and monitoring. In the last decades, technologies such as LiDAR, terrestrial …

Georeferencing of aerial images from small unmanned aerial systems (sUASs) is often
achieved using (1) an abundant number of ground control points (GCPs), or (2) global …