Toward Reliable and Scalable Geohazard Intelligence: From Multiscale Sensing to Open Data Foundations

Session ID#: 282060

Session Description:
To address the growing challenges posed by geohazards and their cascading impacts, we invite contributions that advance reliable and scalable ML/AI approaches for the detection, monitoring, and prediction of geohazards (e.g., earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, landslides, and surface subsidence). We especially welcome works that: (1) leverage multimodal and generative geospatial foundation models, including agentic and multi-agent approaches; (2) integrate multi-scale and multimodal sensing (e.g., optical/SAR, InSAR, distributed fiber-optic sensing) with ML/AI for pre- and post-event assessment of geohazards and their cascading impacts across diverse settings (urban, remote, post-disturbance, and cold-region environments); (3) develop interpretable and knowledge-guided ML/AI to reveal driving factors and physical mechanisms; (4) evaluate and improve model robustness in extreme and data-scarce scenarios through cross-region/cross-scenario transfer, uncertainty quantification, real-time data fusion, and parameter-efficient tuning; and (5) develop open-source, multi-scale, AI-ready geohazard datasets and benchmarks to support the pre-training, adaptation, and evaluation of next-generation geospatial foundation models for real-world deployment.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
Index Terms:

4307 Methods [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4315 Monitoring, forecasting, prediction [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4333 Disaster risk analysis and assessment [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4337 Remote sensing and disasters [NATURAL HAZARDS]
Primary Convener:  Xin Wei, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan Institute for Data and AI in Society, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Conveners:  Chuxuan Li, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, Jingxiao Liu, University of California Berkeley, Civil and Environment Department, Berkeley, United States and Bingxu Luo, The University of Arizona, Geoscience, Tuscon, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Ann Sinclair, Northwestern University, Earth, Environmental, & Planetary Sciences, Evanston, IL, United States
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