Recently Dr. George Liu of LSGI was invited to serve in the Editorial Board for the journal “Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk” (ISSN: 1947-5705; E-ISSN: 1947-5713). The journal “Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk”, under the publisher Taylor & Francis Group in UK, publishes papers that deal with new concepts, approaches and case studies using geospatial (Geographical Information System (GIS) and Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)) 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.
Under the impact of global warming and global climate change, more natural hazards such as tropical cyclones, landslides, and others are expected to occur at a more frequent pace. The observation, monitoring, prediction, and warning of these natural hazards prior to, during and after these hazards are crucially important to protect the safety and security of residents and properties. The technologies such as Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), Remote Sensing and GIS that are intensively researched at the Department of Land Surveying & Geo-Informatics (LSGI), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), can play a significant role in the hazard mitigation and prevention.
The journal “Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk” published its first issue in 2010 and every year it publishes about 70 papers. In 2018, it had an Impact Factor of 2.332.
