Hulskemper et al. report on a data-driven investigation and predictive modelling of Earth surface dynamics captured by high-resolution 4D remote sensing datasets. Their study shows how to integrate massive remote sensing observations to increase our process understanding in coastal morphodynamic research.

The paper by Leger et al. presents a large-scale reconstruction of glacial sediment transport in the Alps, offering both novel insights and a versatile computational framework for investigating glacial processes at Quaternary time scales. The study's relevance spans paleo-glacier dynamics, sediment transport, and landscape evolution in alpine environments, making it highly valuable to geomorphologists, glacial geologists, and sedimentologists, as well as applied sectors. The developed model has the potential to unlock numerous key research questions relating to past and present glacier behavior.

A common perception is that changes in rock type (lithology) directly alter the long profile (or longtitudinal shape) of a river bed. However, this study finds that changes in lithology cannot be directly detected by looking at the long profile of a river, and the reason why it cannot be detected, is of broad interest to students of bedrock rivers and landscapes.