Applied Geomatics - Call for Papers: Evolving Artificial intelligence and IoT for Groundwater Sustainability

The state of groundwater quantity, quality, sustainability, and management are to be protected which is never-changing and a critical resource of fresh water on earth. The cruciality for sustainable groundwater management implementation is raising since groundwater challenges are also increasing including population growth, urbanization, agricultural intensification, fertilizer, pollution, depletion, over-exploitation, droughts, and climate change which causes serious vulnerability to the society. Aquifers which are recognized as storage in underground aid to contribute resilience to drought caused by the climate. Greater conservation of these resources and better ensuring the quality of the resources are needed to hinder groundwater abstractions. Detailed insights into the water cycle and the effect of climate change on the groundwater resources are to be focused on in order to create awareness of global water in society. Innovative ways are yet to be designed to lower the risks of groundwater depletion and attain sustainable development goals (SDGs).

Evolving artificial intelligence (AI) and the internet of things (IoT) is creating breakthroughs in industries and sustainable development in global concerns with its wide range of capabilities. The impact of AI in groundwater management leads to huge advancements in treating and managing the global water resources sector. Internet of Things (IoT) plays a key part in automating the distribution of water, and its storage together with the control of water wastage. The evolution of automation brings incredible advancement in intelligent systems for in-depth analysis of groundwater crises and reacting precisely to real-time warnings. Moreover, the relationship between AI systems and sustainable development (SD) continues to develop and the emergence of new strong policies are encouraged to develop for better supporting the groundwater which has the potential to reinforce ecosystem service and biodiversity conservation. As digitalization paves the way for the transformation of society sustainably. 

This special issue outlines the significance of groundwater sustainability for the well-being of the public and the environment with utmost care through the emergence of new innovative digital technologies like AI, IoT, advanced analytics, and others. We welcome novel contributions from the authors and researchers to enhance groundwater management.

Topics of this special issue include but are not limited to the following:

• AI algorithms and models for efficiently measuring the unreliability of groundwater characteristics for sustainability
• Cutting-edge technologies in climate change adaption and groundwater sustainability
• Machine learning-based new optimized algorithms and frameworks for efficient reduction of pollution in groundwater
• AI-IoT based monitoring and new policies for protecting the groundwater supplies in real-time for sustainability
• AI and IoT based techniques for improving recharging capabilities of the aquifers, groundwater, and environmental factors
• AI and IoT real-time simulation and monitoring tools for groundwater-level and recovery
• Impact of setting up digitalization and AI in groundwater for sustainable development
• Advances in AI and IoT-based strategies in hydrogeology for solving critical complexity of groundwater in real-time
• Challenges of AI and IoT in advanced imaging for aquifer mapping and management
• AI and IoT-enabled applications in groundwater management for developing agriculture
• Survey on groundwater resources based on AI and IoT for preventing global risks and its applications

The content published in this journal is peer reviewed (Single Blind).

Important Dates:

Start date for paper submission: 30 May 2022

EXTENDED Manuscript submission due date: July 30, 2023

Guest Editors:

Dr. Sashik kumar (Managing Guest Editor)

Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, Anna University, India

Email: sashikkumar.m.c@auucedgl.ac.in; sashikkumar.m@gmail.com https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OlfT1JEAAAAJ&hl=en https://www.researchgate.net/profile/M-Sashikkumar http://auucedgl.ac.in/civil-engineering/civil-engineering-faculty

Dr. Norzailawati Hj Mohd Noor 

Associate Professor, Urban and Regional Planning Department, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Deputy Dean at Kulliyah of Architecture and Environmental Design (KAED), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 

Email: norzailawati@iium.edu.my (this opens in a new tab)

https://www.iium.edu.my/directory/show/6608 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Norzailawati-Noor-2 (this opens in a new tab)

Dr. Donghyun Kim

Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Engineering, Pusan National University, Republic of Korea.

E-mail: donghyun-kim@pusan.ac.kr https://scholar.google.co.kr/citations?user=JgomfjEAAAAJ&hl=ko (this opens in a new tab)