A critical review of discontinuity plane extraction from 3D point cloud data of rock mass surfaces

Field investigations of geometric discontinuity properties in rock masses are increasingly using three-dimensional point cloud data. These point clouds sample the rock mass surface and are typically acquired by photogrammetry or LiDAR. The automatic segmentation and extraction of planar surfaces from point cloud data have attracted...

Integrating inland and coastal water quality data for actionable knowledge

Water quality measures for inland and coastal waters are available as discrete samples from professional and volunteer water quality monitoring programs and higher-frequency, near-continuous data from automated in situ sensors. Water quality parameters also are estimated from model outputs and remote sensing. The integration of these data,...

An overview of monitoring methods for assessing the performance of nature-based solutions against natural hazards

To bring to fruition the capability of nature-based solutions (NBS) in mitigating hydro-meteorological risks (HMRs) and facilitate their widespread uptake require a consolidated knowledge-base related to their monitoring methods, efficiency, functioning and the ecosystem services they provide. We attempt to fill this knowledge gap by...