In order to solve the scientific issues on solid earth hazard monitoring and analyzing, as well as enrich the connotation and characteristic of the survey subject, Central South University (CSU) established the Laboratory of Geohazards Perception, Cognition & Prediction (Lab GeoHazards PCP) in 2017, which is leaded by Prof. Lixin Wu, the scholar of the Yangtze River. The laboratory focuses on the synergetic observing (perception), comprehensive understanding (cognition), and process analyzing (prediction) of near surface hazards such as earthquake&landslide, glacier surge, ground subsidence, urban waterlogging, aerosol abnormality, and ionospheric disturbance.

This direction explores the two-way response mechanism between surface resource environment and human activities in the context of global change, and directly serves the country's major strategic needs and major projects such as new urbanization construction, regional environmental comprehensive renovation, and geographical national conditions monitoring. In recent years, a great deal of researches has been carried out from remote sensing signal processing, image interpretation and object recognition, to the ultimate application of geographic national conditions monitoring and analysis demonstration applications. A series of achievements has been obtained in the following aspects:

(1) High-resolution hyperspectral remote sensing image data processing;

(2) Multi-dimensional detection of high-resolution remote sensing changes in cities and towns;

(3) Ground surface LUCC change monitoring and spatial optimization configuration modeling;

(4) Atmosphere, soil surface environmental change monitoring;

(5) Bidirectional response analysis of human-land relationships in the context of global change