| GPR | Ground-Penetrating Radar |
| DOFS | Distributed optical-fibre sensing |
| M-S-N | Material–Structural–Network |
| SHM | Structural health monitoring |
| NDT | Nondestructive testing |
| PS-InSAR | Persistent Scatterer Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| CMP | Common Mid-Point |
| AI | Artificial intelligence |
| PINNs | Physics-Informed Neural Networks |
| FDTD | Finite-difference time domain |
| FBG | Fibre Bragg Grating |
| OFDR | Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometry |
| DAS | Distributed acoustic sensing |
| BOTDA | Brillouin Optical Time Domain Analysis |
| OFS | Optical-fibre sensing |
| SBAS | Small Baseline Subset |
| UASs | Uncrewed Aerial Systems |