Using Deep Learning to create an Enhanced Basemap from RGB Satellite Images for Urban Planning
Available online 16 September 2025
Precise segmentation of high-resolution satellite imagery is critical for a wide range of geospatial applications, including urban planning, environmental monitoring, and renewable energy infrastructure...
Urban Resilience through IoT-Based Disaster Preparedness and Infrastructure Monitoring: A Systematic Literature Review
Available online 14 September 2025
Natural disasters increasingly jeopardize urban infrastructure, underscoring the need for adaptive monitoring and preparedness systems. This study presents a systematic literature review of 349 peer-reviewed...
Enhancing the reliability of social vulnerability assessment to natural hazards through combined machine learning methods: A case study in Vietnam
Available online 13 September 2025
Community risk from natural hazards depends on hazard, exposure, and vulnerability; therefore, effective risk reduction and resilience-building demand comprehensive scientific evaluations of vulnerability,...
Systemically Important Supply Chains in Crisis: Mapping Disruptions and Global Ripple Effects
Available online 9 September 2025
This study explores the causes and effects of disruptions in systemically important supply chains (SISCs) using an integrated approach that combines Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) and Systems...
Deterministic Broadband Ground Motions for the 1905 Kangra earthquake using Multiscale Source Model
Available online 9 September 2025
The 1905 Mw 7.8 Kangra earthquake was a catastrophic event in Himalayan history, which caused widespread destruction in the near-fault region. This great historical earthquake remains inadequately understood...
Analysis of flood and channel dynamics adversity in the Upper Beas Basin during 9-11 July 2023, Himachal Pradesh.
Available online 5 September 2025
The Himalayan region has experienced several floods in the last two decades, due to extreme rainfall episodes often linked with the climatic dynamics and anthropogenic changes. The large-scale changes...
Comparative analysis of drought indices to characterize drought in agro-climatic zones of Assam, Northeast region of India
Available online 31 August 2025
Over the past two decades, Assam, a region prone to flooding, has seen frequent droughts due to reduced rainfall and rising temperatures. The study used different types of drought indices, including...
Disastrous landslide events in the Sikkim Himalaya triggered by extreme early-monsoonal rainfall during May-June, 2025
Available online 30 August 2025
The Sikkim is a hotspot of landslides, particularly along the cut slopes of road corridor. Recently during the 29th May to 3rd June, Sikkim witnessed extreme rainfall mainly in the Mangan district of...
Future meteorological drought in Ethiopia using better performed ensemble Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6 (CIMP6) climate models
Available online 29 August 2025
Drought is a major hydro-meteorological hazard in Ethiopia, causing severe water shortages, loss of agricultural crops, and socio-economy challenges due to irregular precipitation and limited coping...
Spline-Based Volume Estimation of landslides Using Different DEMs: Case Studies of the Kotropi and Prashar Lake Landslides, Northwestern Himalaya
Available online 20 August 2025
Landslides pose a significant threat to infrastructure, ecosystems, and human settlements in mountainous regions. Accurate estimation of landslide volume is crucial for hazard assessment and mitigation...
Optimized Machine Learning based Model for the Large-Scale Spatial Prediction of Landslides at Western Ghats in the state of Karnataka, India
Available online 16 August 2025
The Western Ghats (WG) of India, as per National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) statistics, is one of the most landslide-prone regions, with frequent monsoon-triggered landslips. Landslide susceptibility...
Deep transfer learning: new approach for predicting seismic vulnerability
Available online 12 August 2025
Seismic areas known for the catastrophic impact in both human and material loss, are considered as areas where identifying and predicting vulnerability is challenging specially when data is unavailable...
Sampling strategies for machine learning-based linear erosion studies: a review approaching contributing area
Available online 11 August 2025
Linear erosion is a major socio-environmental challenge, influenced by climatic, geomorphological and anthropogenic factors. This study explores how sampling strategies and topographic contributing...
Evaluating the Socio-economic risks of a Potential GLOF from Dudh Pokhari Lake in Nepal’s Everest Region
Available online 9 August 2025
Climate change has caused glacial retreat in the Himalaya, resulting in the rapid formation and expansion, of glacial lakes and an increased risk of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) that threatened...
A comprehensive inventory of landslides triggered by Typhoon Gaemi (July 2024) in Zixing, Hunan, China
Available online 25 July 2025
Between 26 and 28 July 2024, extreme rainfall from Typhoon Gaemi triggered an event of catastrophic widespread landslides in Zixing, Hunan Province, China, causing substantial casualties and infrastructure...
Tracing fault systems from subsurface to surface in Yogyakarta and its surroundings, Indonesia
Available online 14 July 2025
The Yogyakarta area and its surroundings have a reasonably high population density and disaster vulnerability. Appropriate mitigation is essential to reduce the impact of earthquakes in this region...
Flood vulnerability assessment in Jamuna river floodplain: A Synthesis of multi-dimensional vulnerability indicators using geospatial and Fuzzy-AHP techniques
Available online 14 July 2025
Flooding is a recurrent threat in low-lying areas of Bangladesh, requiring comprehensive assessment for effective disaster risk reduction. In this study, we developed a detailed spatial framework for...
Quantifying Regional-Scale Flash Flood Susceptibility Using Watershed Geomorphometry-Based Approach along the High Range, West of Chiang Mai Basin, Northern Thailand
Available online 9 July 2025
Flash floods, often triggered by intense, short-duration rainfall, are a significant natural hazard in Northern Thailand. This study targets the watersheds of the Thanon Thong Chai Range, a mountain...
Lightweight CNN model for automatic detection and depth estimation of subsurface voids using GPR B-scan data
June 2025
Subsurface cavities pose significant risks, including structural instability, safety hazards, and environmental damage. Early detection of these cavities is crucial to prevent material losses and protect...
Application of limit equilibrium and shear strength reduction techniques for stability assessment of slope cuts- a case study of khalid-Dijo dam project, southern Ethiopia
June 2025
Dam failure can occur due to foundation instability, downstream and upstream slopes instabilities. This study assesses the stability of upstream and downstream slope cuts at Khalid-Dijo irrigation dam...
Drought monitoring using the Climate Hazards InfraRed Precipitation with Stations (CHIRPS) in Ethiopia
June 2025
Ethiopia has experienced numerous natural disasters, with 110 documented events that include floods, disease outbreaks, droughts, landslides, pest infestations, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, mass...
Deep learning models for enhanced forest-fire prediction at Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania: Integrating satellite images, weather data and human activities data
June 2025
Forest fires (FFs) are a growing threat to ecosystems and human settlements, particularly in vulnerable regions such as Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Accurate and timely fire prediction is essential...
Machine learning approaches for mapping and predicting landslide-prone areas in São Sebastião (Southeast Brazil)
June 2025
This study employs machine learning techniques to map and predict landslide-prone areas in São Sebastião, Brazil, a region susceptible to landslides due to its steep terrain and intense rainfall. We...
Natural hazard induced coastal vulnerability in Indian Sundarbans: A village-level study by using geospatial and statistical techniques
June 2025
The Sundarbans, an area with a history dating back to the dawn of civilization, has faced numerous environmental hazards that have remarkably affected the lives and livelihoods of its natives. Strom...
Advances in earthquake and cascading disasters
June 2025
Earthquakes and cascading disasters have garnered increasing attention. The 2023 Annual Academic Conference of the Committee on Earthquake Hazard Chain, the Seismological Society of China, was successfully...