As the scale and complexity of major infrastructure construction continue to rise (such as traversing geologically vulnerable areas like high mountains and canyons and active fault zones), traditional monitoring methods are insufficient to meet the requirements of wide-area, long-term, and high-precision monitoring for major engineering projects. In recent years, satellite remote sensing technology, especially Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), has made significant progress in the field of Earth observation. Radar remote sensing technology, with its unique imaging method, can perform all-weather, all-time, large-scale, and high-precision dynamic monitoring of surface deformation, providing crucial decision support for safety assessments, risk management, and disaster emergency response in major engineering projects. Currently, radar remote sensing technology still faces challenges such as insufficient data processing accuracy and difficulty in fusing multi-source information in complex scenarios. Therefore, there is an urgent need for innovative research in areas such as high-precision deformation inversion methods in complex scenarios, remote sensing data analysis, improved monitoring accuracy, real-time early warning of geological disasters, and inversion of deep deformation and stress fields to promote the in-depth development of satellite remote sensing technology in engineering applications.

This special issue aims to focus on the cutting-edge applications of satellite remote sensing technology in major engineering projects. We sincerely invite researchers to share their original research papers, technical reports, and review articles in related fields, so as to promote the innovation and practice of satellite remote sensing technology and provide more efficient solutions for geological disaster prevention and control and the safe construction and maintenance of engineering projects.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

l  Research on improving the accuracy and spatiotemporal resolution of deformation measurement using InSAR methods

l  Research on combining InSAR with GNSS, LiDAR, and optical remote sensing to enhance deformation monitoring and interpret multi-source data integration

l  Case studies of applications of satellite remote sensing monitoring technology in landslides, ground subsidence, seismic activity, glacier dynamics, and engineering infrastructure

l  Research on geological disaster early warning system and risk assessment model using satellite remote sensing monitoring data

l  Research on methods for inverting deep rock mass deformation and stress field based on surface deformation

l  Research on the stability of underground engineering based on deformation inversion analysis

Deadline for Manuscript Submission: 31 December 2026

Guest Editors

1. Prof. Lizhe Wang

China University of Geosciences

Email: lizhe.wang@gmail.com

2. Prof. Liming Jiang

Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Email: jlm@whigg.ac.cn

3. Prof. Nuwen Xu

China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing

Email: xunuwen@cumtb.edu.cn

4. Prof. Fang Chen

Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Email: chenfang@radi.ac.cn