Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk  publishes papers that deal with new concepts, approaches and case studies using geospatial (GIS and GPS) and remote sensing techniques to study monitoring, mapping, risk management and mitigation, risk vulnerability and early warning of natural hazards. All types of natural hazards associated with land, ocean, atmosphere, land-ocean-atmosphere coupling and those induced by climate change are considered.  The journal also focuses on the emerging problems related to multi-hazard risk assessment, multi-vulnerability risk assessment, risk quantification, the economic aspects of hazards, visualization and communication. 

This new journal in addition publishes results of findings on major natural hazards in the form of Express Letters. 

Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk  is a fully open access journal. This means all submitted articles will, if accepted, be available for anyone to read anywhere, at any time, immediately on publication. There are no charges for submission to this journal. 

Following peer review, authors of accepted papers pay an article publishing charge (APC) of  $1,500 USD / £1,000 GBP / €1,150 EUR, plus any applicable taxes.We have agreed a discount on this APC for authors in some institutions (see  http://www.tandfonline.com/page/openaccess/members for more details). 


Peer Review Statement 
Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk is an international, ranked, peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research contributions to scientific knowledge. All manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is single blind and submission is online via ScholarOne.

Editor-in-Chief 

Ramesh P. Singh 
Professor, Earth System Science and Remote Sensing 
School of Life and Environmental Sciences 
Schmid College of Science and Technology 
Chapman University, Hashinger #219 
One University Drive, Orange, CA 92866 
E-mail:  tgnh@chapman.edu 


Associate Editors 

Vincenzo Lapenna 
Istituto di Metodologie per l'Analisi Ambientale 
del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IMAA-CNR) 
C.da S. Loja, Zona Industriale Tito Scalo 
I-85100 Tito, PZ, Italy 

Tao Xu 
Center for Rock Instability & Seismicity Research 
School of Resources and Civil Engineering 
Northeastern University 
Shenyang 110819, China 


Editorial Board 

Ghassem R. Asrar 
Director, Joint Global Change Research Institute 
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 
Washington 
USA 

Silvia Bianchini 
Earth Sciences Department 
University of Florence 
Florence 
Italy 

Manfred Buchroithner 
Technische Universitat Dresden 
Institute for Cartography 
Dresden 
Germany 

Si-Wei Chen 
College of Electronic Science 
National University of Defense Technology 
China 

Cao ChunXiang 
P.O.Box 9718-13, Datun Road 
Beijing 
China 

Andrea Ciampalini 
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra 
Università di Piza 
Pisa 
Italy 

Matteo Del Soldato 
University of Florence, Department of Earth Sciences 
Centre of Competence of the Civil Protection Department 
Geological Risk Reduction 
Via La Pira, 4-50121 Firenze 
Italy 

Vineet Gahalaut 
National Geophysical Research Institute 
Telangana 
India 

Daniele Giordan 
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche 
Istituto di Ricerca per la Protezione Idrogeologica  
Gruppo di Geomonitoraggio – Geohazard Monitoring Group 
Strada delle Cacce, 73 
10135 - Torino 
Italy 

Menas Kafatos 
Schmid College of Science and Technology 
Chapman University 
California 
USA 

Ulrich Kamp 
University of Michigan-Dearborn 
108 Science Faculty Center 
4901 Evergreen Rd 
Dearborn, MI 48218 
USA 

STG Raghu Kanth 
Department of Civil Engineering 
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) 
Madras 
India 

J.R. Kayal 
Institute of Seismological Institute 
Ghandinagar 
India 

Felix Kogan 
NOAA 
NESDIS 
Center for Satellite Applications and Research 
Maryland 
USA 

Lalit Kumar 
School of Environmental and Rural Science 
University of New England 
Armidale 
Australia 

Yuei-An Liou 
Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research (CSRSR) 
National Central University (NSU) 
Taiwan 
China 

George Liu 
Department of Land Surveying and Geo-informatics (LSGI) 
Hong Kong Polytechnic University 
Hong Kong, P. R. China 

Zhong Lu 
Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences 
Southern Methodist University 
Texas 
USA 

Mario Martina 
Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS Pavia 
Palazzo del Broletto 
Piazza della Vittoria n.15 - 27100 Pavia 
Italy 

Thomas Oommen 
Michigan Technological University 
Michigan 
USA 

Nicola Pergola 
Research Scientist, CNR – IMAA 
C.da S. Loja 
Italy 

Francesco Pirotti 
Universita di Padova 
CIRGEO Interdepartmental Research Center in Geomatics 
Padua 
Italy 

Biswajeet Pradhan 
Advanced Geospatial Information Systems Research Group 
Faculty of Engineering & IT 
University of Technology Sydney 
New South Wales 
Australia 

Federico Raspini 
Department of Earth Sciences 
University of Firenze 
Florence 
Italy 

Ascanio Rosi 
University of Florence 
Department of Earth Sciences 
Florence 
Italy 

Sudipta Sarkar 
Science Systems and Applications Inc. 
NASA 
Washington 
USA 

Anil Shukla 
Physical Research Laboratory 
Ahmedabad 
Gujarat 
India 

Armin Sorooshian 
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering 
The University of Arizona 
Arizona 
USA 

DanLing Tang 
Professor, Director, Center of Remote Sensing and Marine Ecology/Environment (RSMEE) 
South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 
Ghangzhou 
China 

Valerio Tramutoli 
Department of Engineering and Physics of The Environment (DIFA) 
University of Basilicata 
Potenza 
Italy 

Sheng Zheng 
Department of Land Management 
Zhejiang University 
866 Yuhangtang Road 
Hangzhou 
310058, P. R. China