Preface

This book presents detailed discussions and documents about landslides as catastrophic events that can cause human injury, loss of life, and economic devastation as well as destroy construction works and cultural and natural heritage. Most of the work in this book is based on in situ observations or remotely sensed data and new technologies in the monitoring of landslide processes, such as coal mine and marine landslides, land subsidence, tsunamis, hazard mapping and assessment, monitoring and modeling, InSAR and GIS techniques, early warning and evacuation, and regional/local landslide mitigation. This book is a comprehensive reference for landslide researchers, graduate students, policymakers, and landslide mitigation managers.

We thank all the contributing authors for their excellent work. We also wish to thank the staff at IntechOpen, especially Publishing Process Manager Ms. Paula Gavran. We acknowledge the use of in situ observations and satellite data from projects at the National Natural Science Foundation of China (U1901215) and the Marine Special Program of Jiangsu Province in China (JSZRHYKJ202007).

> **Dr. Yuanzhi Zhang** School of Marine Sciences, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

> > **Dr. Qiuming Cheng** School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China

Section 1
