Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) technology has been widely applied to measure Earth surface motions related to natural and anthropogenic crustal deformation phenomena. With the widespread uptake of data captured by the European Space...
Wetlands are dynamic environments, the water and vegetation of which can change considerably over time. Thus, it is important to investigate the hydroperiod status of wetlands using advanced techniques such as remote sensing technology. Wetland hydro...
The fusion of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) and interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) deformation data can leverage the advantages of GNSS high temporal resolution and InSAR high spatial resolution, and obtain more abundant def...
Geodetic data can detect and estimate deformation signals and rates due to natural and anthropogenic phenomena. In the present study, we focus on northeastern Italy, an area characterized by ~1.5–3 mm/yr of convergence rates due to the collisio...
The growing volume of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery acquired by satellite constellations creates novel opportunities and opens new challenges for interferometric SAR (InSAR) applications to observe Earth’s surface processes and geohazards. I...
Wetlands are valuable natural resources which provide numerous services to the environment. Many studies have demonstrated the potential of various types of remote sensing datasets and techniques for wetland mapping and change analysis. However, ther...
We present here the recent advances in exploring new techniques related to interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) signal and data processing and applications.
Through different phases of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data acquired on different dates and/or at different satellite imaging locations, the interferometric SAR (InSAR) technique has long been used to map ground deformation or generate global dig...
Large-scale deformation fields are crucial for monitoring seismic activity, landslides, and other geological hazards. Traditionally, the acquisition of large-area, three-dimensional deformation fields has relied on GNSS data; however, the inherent sp...
One of the most promising applications of satellite data is providing users in charge of land and emergency management with information and data to support decision making for geohazard mapping, monitoring and early warning. In this work, we consider...
Multi-temporal synthetic aperture radar interferometry (MT-InSAR) is nowadays a well-developed remote sensing technique for monitoring of Earth’s surface deformation. The availability of regular and open Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite data wit...
This paper presents a study on applying satellite Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) technology for the remote monitoring of road bridges and interpreting the results from a structural standpoint. The motivation behind this study arises...
InSAR technology effectively monitors urban subsidence and evaluates the stability of infrastructure across extensive regions. Atmospheric tropospheric delay constitutes a significant source of error that adversely impacts the accuracy of InSAR defor...
Urban road collapse is a common disaster in modern cities, posing a severe threat to the safety of life and property of urban residents. Effective risk assessment is crucial for preventing collapses. This study proposes a novel method for assessing t...
Successfully detecting ground deformation, especially landslides, using InSAR has not always been possible. Improvements to existing InSAR tools are needed to address this issue. This study develops and evaluates two novel approaches that use multidi...
The Geysers geothermal field in California is experiencing land subsidence due to the seismic and geothermal activities taking place. This poses a risk not only to the underlying infrastructure but also to the groundwater level which would reduce the...
With the rapid development of interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) measurement technology, its measurement accuracy requirements are increasing. Atmospheric delay errors must be corrected, especially in the case of crustal deformation mon...
We obtained the rupture process and slip distribution of the 2022 Mw6.6 Menyuan earthquake by jointly inverting accelerogram data and InSAR measurements. The near-field InSAR measurements provide good constraints on the shallow slip distributions (&l...
Correct use of multi-temporal Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) datasets to complement geodetic surveying for geo-hazard applications requires rigorous assessment of their precision and accuracy. Published inter-comparisons are mostly...
Forest canopy height estimation is essential for forest management and biomass estimation. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the capacity of TanDEM-X interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) data to estimate canopy height with the assistanc...
The ML 5.8 earthquake that hit the island of Crete on 27 September 2021 is analysed with InSAR (Interferometry from Synthetic Aperture Radar) and GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) data. The purpose of this work is to create a model with suffi...
This study proposes a new set of processing procedures based on the strain model and the Kalman filter (SM-Kalman) to obtain high-precision three-dimensional surface deformation time series from interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) and gl...
In the context of global warming, the accelerated degradation of circum-Arctic permafrost is releasing a significant amount of carbon. InSAR can indirectly reflect the degradation of permafrost by monitoring its deformation. This study selected three...
This work concerns a proposal of the integration of InSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) data acquired by ground-based (GB) and satellite platforms. The selected test site is the Åknes rockslide, which affects the western Norwegian coast....
The identification of areas that are susceptible to damage due to earthquakes is of utmost importance in tectonically active regions like Northeast India. This may provide valuable inputs for seismic hazard analysis; however, it poses significant cha...
This study investigates the effect of geological field measurement (offset), global positioning system (GPS), and interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) data on the estimation of the co-seismic earthquake displacements of the 2002 Denali ea...
The 2016 Kumamoto earthquake, including two large (Mw ≥ 6.0) foreshocks and an Mw 7.0 mainshock, occurred in the Hinagu and Futagawa fault zones in the middle of Kyushu island, Japan. Here, we obtain the complex coseismic deformation field associa...
In this work, we propose a geodetic model for the March 2021 Thessaly seismic sequence (TSS). We used the interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) technique and exploited a dataset of Sentinel-1 images to successfully detect the surface defor...
Landslides, often a side effect of mining activities, pose a significant risk to humans and infrastructures such as urban areas, power lines, and dams. Operational ground motion monitoring can help detect the spatial pattern of surface changes and th...
The rapid development of urban infrastructure has accelerated the construction of large foundation pit projects, posing challenges for deformation monitoring and safety. This study proposes a novel approach integrating time-series InSAR data with a m...
A stack of Sentinel-1 InSAR data in an urban area where flood events recurrently occur, namely Beletweyne town in Somalia, has been analyzed. From this analysis, a novel method to deal with the problem of flood mapping in urban areas has been derived...
Gas consumption is subject to large seasonal fluctuations between the summer season (period with lower request) and the winter season (time with increased consumer demand). Underground gas storage applications (UGS) help to ensure a steady and reliab...
Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) has developed rapidly over the past years and is considered as an important method for surface deformation monitoring, benefiting from growing data quantities and improving data quality. However, the h...
The filtering of multi-pass synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR) stack data is a necessary preprocessing step utilized to improve the accuracy of the object-based three-dimensional information inversion in urban area. InSAR stack data is c...
Investigation of subsidence situations is important for the design of railway lines. Traditional geological investigations are expensive. Multi-temporal InSAR (MT-InSAR) analysis has shown great potential for detecting subsidence areas along large-sc...
The TanDEM-X synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system allows for the recording of bistatic interferometric SAR (InSAR) acquisitions, which provide additional information to the common amplitude images acquired by monostatic SAR systems. More concretely,...
Time-series Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) techniques encounter substantial reliability challenges, primarily due to the presence of gross errors arising from phase unwrapping failures. These errors propagate through the processing...
Natural and anthropogenic subsidence such as that in the Como urban area (northern Italy) can cause significant damage to structures and infrastructure, and expose the city’s lakefront to an increasing risk of inundation from Lake Como. This ph...
On 20 April 2013, a moment magnitude (Mw) 6.6 earthquake occurred in the Lushan region of southwestern China and caused more than 190 fatalities. In this study, we use geodetic data from nearly 30 continuously operating global positioning system (GPS...
Orbit error is one of the primary error sources of interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) and differential InSAR (D-InSAR) measurements, arising from inaccurate orbit determination of SAR platforms. Typically, orbit error in the interferogr...
Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) technology has been widely employed in the rapid monitoring of earthquakes and associated geological hazards. With the continued advancement of InSAR technology, the growing volume of satellite-acquire...
Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) has achieved great success in various geodetic applications, and its potential for ground deformation measurements on the large scale has attracted increasingly more attention in recent years. The incr...
Previous studies on single-polarized InSAR-based sub-canopy topography inversion have mainly relied on simplified or empirical models that only consider the volume scattering process. In a boreal forest area, the canopy layer is often discontinuous....
The ground deformation rate is an important index for evaluating the stability and degradation of permafrost. Due to limited accessibility, in-situ measurement of the ground deformation of permafrost areas on the Tibetan Plateau is a challenge. Thus,...
This paper develops a framework for extracting sub-canopy topography from the TanDEM-X digital elevation model (DEM) by fusing ALOS-2 PARSAR-2 interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) coherence and Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GED...
On 8 August 2017, a surface wave magnitude (Ms) 7.0 earthquake occurred at the buried faults extending to the north of the Huya fault. Based on the coseismic deformation field obtained from interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) data and a...
Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) has become an increasingly recognized remote sensing technology for earth surface monitoring. Slow and subtle terrain displacements can be estimated using time-series InSAR (TSInSAR) data. However, a s...
The research and improvement of methods to be used for deformation measurements from space is a challenge. From the previous 20 years, time series Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) interferometry techniques have proved for their ability to provide milli...
Different interferometric approaches have been developed over the past few decades to process SAR data and recover surface deformation, and each approach has advantages and limitations. Finding an accurate and reliable interval for preparing mean def...
Land subsidence significantly threatens urban infrastructure, agricultural productivity, and environmental sustainability. This study develops a land subsidence susceptibility model by integrating Small Baseline Subset (SBAS) Interferometric Syntheti...
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