Measuring Surface Deformation of Coastal Areas with SAR Interferometry
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2022) | Viewed by 11312
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Interests: geomorphology; geology; remote sensing; natural hazard; monitoring
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Interests: volcanology; remote sensing; geomorphology
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Dear Colleagues,
Coastal areas of continents and islands are affected by long- to short-term deformations reflecting the complex interaction among different processes including sea level changes, longshore erosion/deposition, sea/salt wedging, river delta/estuary and lagoon processes, groundwater dynamics, tectonics and volcanism. The deformation processes may be caused or enhanced by anthropic activities, such as excavations, underground mining, water, gas, or oil exploitation. In many cases, these processes occur together and interplay at different spatial and time scales. Archive InSAR datasets give the opportunity to analyze recent past surface deformation patterns, and the current availability of high spatial and temporal coverage of SAR data provides the opportunity to produce precise displacement maps. In this framework, the analysis of InSAR data represents a useful tool to detect and monitor surface deformations along the coasts and define their evolution with time. InSAR analysis, coupled with other spatial datasets and geodetic measurements, may allow the recognition among the different causative processes, the cause-effect relations, and the identification of possible ‘chain of deformation events’.
In this Special Issue, we ask for researchers’ contributions dealing with processing and analysis methodologies exploiting In-SAR data to quantify rates of natural and anthropogenic processes causing surface deformations in coastal areas and their influence on related natural hazards. Significative case studies are welcomed. We also encourage studies including processing and analysis of both InSAR and GNSS data providing constraints on ongoing crustal tectonic processes along continental margins, usually characterized by very low rates.
Finally, because coastal areas are sites where population, trade and economic activity is still growing around all the world, we also request for studies involving the merge of InSAR data and available geological, hydrological, oceanic, geographic, and urban planning information, aimed at statistically quantify the cause-effect relations among the different coastal processes and provide well constrained scenarios for the future urban, infrastructural (transports and industry) and agriculture planning.
Dr. Fabio Matano
Dr. Guido Ventura
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Surface deformation
- SAR Interferometry
- Coastal areas
- Coastal processes
- Tectonic process
- Natural hazards
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