Exploitation of Large Archives of ERS and ENVISAT C-Band SAR Data to Characterize Ground Deformations

• DOI: 10.3390/rs5083896
• Publication Date: 2013-08-08T15:41:32Z
• Authors: Chiara Del Ventis...; Andrea Ciampalini; Michele Manunta; Fabiana Calò; Luca Paglia; Francesca Ardizzone; Alessandro Mondini; Paola Reichenbach; Rosa Mateos; Silvia Bianchini; Immaculada Garcia; Balázs Füsi; Zsuzsa Deák; Károly Rádi; Marek Graniczny; Zbigniew Kowalski; Anna Piatkowska; Maria Przylucka; Hugo Retzo; Tazio Strozzi; Davide Colombo; Oscar Mora; Francisco Sánchez; Gerardo Herrera; Sandro Moretti; Nicola Casagli; Fausto Guzzetti
• Keywords: Ground subsidence; Doris (gastropod)

In the last few years, several advances have been made in use of radar images to detect, map and monitor ground deformations. DInSAR (Differential Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry) A-DInSAR/PSI (Advanced DInSAR/Persistent Scatterers technologies successfully applied study deformation phenomena induced by, for example, active tectonics, volcanic activity, water exploitation, mining, landslides, both at local regional scales. this paper, existing European Space Agency (ESA) archives (acquired as part FP7-DORIS project), which were collected by ERS-1/2 ENVISAT satellites operating microwave C-band, analyzed exploited understand dynamics landslide subsidence phenomena. particular, paper presents results obtained project demonstrate that full exploitation very long time series (more than 15 years) can play a key role understanding natural human-induced hazards.