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GNSS Applications to Monitor Natural Hazards

  • 1st Edition - October 28, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Joseph Awange
  • Language: English

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are a cornerstone of modern geodetic positioning, but their true potential extends far beyond traditional applications. GNSS Appli… Read more

Description

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are a cornerstone of modern geodetic positioning, but their true potential extends far beyond traditional applications. GNSS Applications to Monitor Natural Hazards presents a systematic, step-by-step methodology for leveraging satellite-based positioning to detect, analyze, and mitigate environmental threats—from floods and droughts to seismic shifts and landslides. As climate change intensifies natural hazards, this book bridges the gap between theory and practice, offering researchers, engineers, and policymakers reproducible techniques to enhance early-warning systems. For the first time, it also explores AI-enhanced GNSS, demonstrating how machine learning can unlock real-time hazard prediction and adaptive monitoring. Designed for both experts and newcomers, this work translates cutting-edge research into actionable strategies, empowering readers to harness GNSS technology for a more resilient future. Whether optimizing disaster response or decoding subtle environmental changes, this book is an essential guide to reducing the impact of catastrophic events through innovation.

Key features

  • Covers a wide variety of techniques with numerous Illustrative examples to link GNSS applications to real situations
  • Provides easy to follow, step-by-step procedures enhancing understanding of complex methodologies
  • Delivers simplified theoretical concepts to enable non-GNSS experts to understand

Readership

Earth and Environmental Scientists (researchers, professionals, professors, postgraduate students) working with GNSS technologies or those wanting to relate the application of GNSS to natural hazards Hydrologists, climatologists, geologists, geospatial scientists, geomorphologists, atmospheric scientists

Table of contents

1. Natural Hazards and the need for monitoring

2. GNSS: The Basics

3. Application to Landslides

4. Application of GNSS-RO to Climate Variability

5. Application of GNSS-RO to Expansion of the Tropics

6. Application of GNSS-IWV to Global Warming

7. Application to Floods

8. Application to Droughts

9. Application to Sea level changes

10. Application to Earthquakes

11. Application to Tsunamis

12. Application to Volcanoes

13. Applications to Typhoons

14. Applications to land subsidence

15. Application to Structural Health Monitoring

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 28, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Joseph Awange

Joseph Awange is a professor of Environmental Geoinformatics at the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics (LSGI, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) having previously worked at Curtin University (Australia). His research interests are sensing of environmental changes employing geospatial and AI techniques, hydroclimate, climate variability/change, climate extremes and mathematical geosciences (algebraic & numerical solutions). He obtained his BSc and MSc degrees in Surveying (University of Nairobi, Kenya). Joseph was awarded a merit scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Program (DAAD), which facilitated his obtaining a second MSc degree and PhD in Geodesy at Stuttgart University (Germany) under the supervision of the late Prof Erik W. Grafarend (one of the world’s renown geodesists). In 2002-2004, he was awarded the prestigious Japan Society of Promotion of Science (JSPS; Japan) Fellowship to pursue postdoctoral research in Environmental Geodesy at Kyoto University. His research output has been globally recognized through prestigious Awards (i) Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Fellowships (2008-2011 Ludwig Leichhardt Memorial Fellowship for experienced researchers, 2015 & 2019 AvH support in acknowledgment of his scientific achievements in his specific academic field and in recognition of his contribution towards scientific cooperation with German colleagues), (ii) 2015 JSPS Fellowship, and (iii), Brazil Frontier of Science (Brazil). Joseph who holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) from Murdoch University (Australia) is currently serving as the Acquisition Manager for Springer Nature (world-leading research, educational and professional publisher) in charge of Earth Sciences, Geography, and Environment books. He attained International Editorial role in Springer Earth Science Books and has authored more than 25 scholarly books with the prestigious Springer publisher and more than 250 peer-reviewed high-impact journal publications

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Spatial Sciences, Curtin University, Australia