Geoinformation techniques in natural hazard modeling：Preface

There are number of geoinformation approaches and modeling tools to the numerical measurement of natural hazards,including direct and indirect heuristic approaches,and deterministic,probabilistic,statistical and data mining approaches(Pradhan and Buchroithner,2012;Pradhan et al.,2012,2014;Pradhan,2013).In this thematic section of Geoscience Frontiers,a set of six contributions are assembled that provide a window on various parameters,