Focus and Scope

The  Journal of Geoscience and Spatial Observation (GSO) journal welcomes high-quality manuscripts that cover, but are not limited to, the following core areas:

I. Applied Geosciences & Earth Observation

  • Environmental Monitoring: Assessing air quality, atmospheric dynamics, and pollution impacts over time.

  • Disaster Management: Post-disaster damage assessment, humanitarian mapping, and hazard mitigation strategies.

  • Geomorphology & Land Cover: Long-term land-use/land-cover (LULC) changes, urban heat islands, and natural resource management.

  • Climate & Weather Systems: Integration of global earth observation data with localized weather station networks and climate modeling.

II. Spatial Data Measurement & Acquisition

  • Remote Sensing: Multi-spectral, hyper-spectral, and SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite observations (e.g., Landsat, Sentinel, MODIS).

  • UAV & Drone Technologies: High-resolution photogrammetry, drone-based LiDAR, and autonomous spatial data collection.

  • Geodesy & Surveying: Advanced positioning systems, geodetic networks, and multi-epoch spatial data acquisition.

  • Infrastructure Monitoring: Applications of spatial technology for structural health monitoring of critical infrastructure (e.g., bridges, dams, transportation networks).

III. Processing, Handling, & Analytics

  • Cloud-Based Geocomputation: Utilization of platforms like Google Earth Engine (GEE) for planetary-scale data analysis.

  • Algorithm Development: Machine learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence applied to geospatial datasets.

  • Big Data Spatial Analytics: Handling, filtering, and extracting actionable metrics from massive, multi-temporal spatial datasets and LiDAR point clouds.

IV. Spatial Visualization & Communication

  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Advanced spatial modeling and spatial decision support systems (SDSS).

  • Dynamic Mapping: 3D/4D modeling, digital twins, and interactive geospatial web applications.

  • Visual Data Storytelling: Innovative methods for communicating complex environmental and structural data to policymakers and the public.

3. Types of Articles Accepted

  • Original Research Articles: Comprehensive studies detailing novel methodologies or significant findings.

  • Review Papers: Critical evaluations of the current state of specific technologies or applications within the scope.

  • Technical Notes / Short Communications: Brief reports on new tools, datasets, processing scripts, or early-stage field assessments.

4. Out of Scope To maintain the journal's focus, GSO will generally not consider manuscripts that deal with pure, theoretical geoscience or social sciences without a clear, substantial spatial observation or geographic information systems (GIS) component. Similarly, purely algorithmic computer science papers must demonstrate a direct, validated application to Earth observation data to be considered.