Focus and Scope

 Nova Geodesia 

A Journal of Geospatial, Environmental, and Socio-Technical Studies

Nova Geodesia is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to research and innovative applications in geodesy, surveying, positioning, mapping, geographic information science, remote sensing, photogrammetry, LiDAR, land administration, spatial planning, and related geospatial fields. The journal also welcomes interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary studies in environmental, engineering, agricultural, forestry, landscape, natural-resource, socio-economic, and policy domains, provided that they include a substantive geospatial component and a clear contribution to knowledge, methodology, or practice.

The journal publishes Research Articles, Review Articles, Notes, and Editorials. Research Articles, Review Articles, and Notes are subject to external peer review. Editorials are evaluated editorially and do not normally undergo external peer review.

The journal welcomes contributions in areas including, but not limited to:

• Geodesy, GNSS positioning, and surveying – reference systems and frames, precise positioning, network design, adjustment, deformation monitoring, geodynamics, and measurement technologies.

• Cartography and geovisualization – thematic mapping, atlas development, 3D modelling, web mapping, virtual environments, and interactive geospatial platforms.

• Geographic information science and spatial analysis – GIS methods, spatial databases, geocomputation, spatial modelling, decision-support systems, geostatistics, and geospatial data integration.

• Remote sensing and Earth observation – satellite, airborne, terrestrial, and UAV-based sensing for environmental monitoring, land-use analysis, resource assessment, and change detection.

• Photogrammetry, LiDAR, and laser scanning – image-based modelling, point-cloud processing, terrain and surface modelling, digital twins, infrastructure assessment, and cultural-heritage documentation.

• Cadastre, land administration, and land management – property registration, cadastral systems, land valuation, boundaries, tenure, land consolidation, governance, and spatial policy.

• Engineering surveying, infrastructure, and smart environments – geospatial support for construction, transportation, utilities, structural monitoring, urban systems, and smart-city applications.

• Hydrography and water resources – bathymetric mapping, coastal and river monitoring, flood modelling, watershed analysis, and geospatial assessment of water systems.

• Urban, regional, and territorial planning – land-use planning, mobility, demographic and socio-spatial analysis, urban growth, accessibility, and sustainable development.

• Environmental sciences and ecology – habitat and biodiversity mapping, ecosystem services, pollution assessment, climate-change impacts, and environmental monitoring using geospatial methods.

• Agriculture, forestry, rural development, and landscape planning – precision agriculture, crop and soil monitoring, forest inventory, land suitability, rural and peri-urban analysis, and landscape assessment supported by geospatial data and technologies.

• Natural hazards and disaster-risk reduction – geospatial assessment and monitoring of earthquakes, landslides, erosion, floods, drought, wildfire, and other hazards.

• Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation in geospatial research – classification, segmentation, prediction, feature extraction, data fusion, explainable AI, and automated geospatial workflows.

• Planetary and extraterrestrial mapping – spatial analysis and modelling of planetary surfaces and remote-sensing data.

• Socio-economic, public-health, and policy applications – census mapping, accessibility, spatial inequalities, public-health geography, and policy-oriented geospatial decision support.

Nova Geodesia particularly encourages studies that:

• integrate multiple data sources, sensors, methods, or disciplinary perspectives;

• provide transparent and reproducible methodologies, workflows, data, or code where legally and ethically possible;

• advance geospatial science, technology, modelling, or professional practice;

• address environmental, societal, engineering, or territorial challenges with broader relevance;

• demonstrate methodological transferability or comparative value beyond a single local case.

Local and regional case studies are welcome when they provide broader scientific, methodological, comparative, or practical significance. Manuscripts that are mainly descriptive, narrowly local, routine technical reports, or only marginally connected to geospatial science may be considered outside the journal’s scope.

With contributors and Editorial Board members from multiple countries, Nova Geodesia promotes international diversity, supports early-career researchers alongside established experts, and maintains high standards of editorial evaluation, double-blind peer review, research integrity, and open access.

 

 

Open Access and Licensing

All published content is made freely and immediately available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0). There are no submission fees or article processing charges (APCs). Authors retain copyright and grant the journal and publisher a non-exclusive right to publish, distribute, archive, preserve, and disseminate the work.