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62 Citations
10,911 Views
16 Pages

Monitoring Building Deformation with InSAR: Experiments and Validation

  • Kui Yang,
  • Li Yan,
  • Guoman Huang,
  • Chu Chen and
  • Zhengpeng Wu

20 December 2016

Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (InSAR) techniques are increasingly applied for monitoring land subsidence. The advantages of InSAR include high accuracy and the ability to cover large areas; nevertheless, research validating the use of InSAR...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,272 Views
27 Pages

Sensitivity Evaluation of Time Series InSAR Monitoring Results for Landslide Detection

  • Liming He,
  • Panke Pei,
  • Xiangning Zhang,
  • Ji Qi,
  • Jiuyang Cai,
  • Wang Cao,
  • Ruibo Ding and
  • Yachun Mao

7 August 2023

Spaceborne interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) techniques are important for landslide detection and monitoring; however, several limitations and uncertainties, such as the unique north–south flying direction and side-look radar obs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,333 Views
18 Pages

Analysis of Available Conditions for InSAR Surface Deformation Monitoring in CCS Projects

  • Tian Zhang,
  • Wanchang Zhang,
  • Ruizhao Yang,
  • Huiran Gao and
  • Dan Cao

17 January 2022

Carbon neutrality is a goal the world is striving to achieve in the context of global warming. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) has received extensive attention as an effective method to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. What follows is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
7,366 Views
24 Pages

Interpretation of Bridge Health Monitoring Data from Satellite InSAR Technology

  • Daniel Tonelli,
  • Valeria F. Caspani,
  • Andrea Valentini,
  • Alfredo Rocca,
  • Riccardo Torboli,
  • Alfonso Vitti,
  • Daniele Perissin and
  • Daniele Zonta

4 November 2023

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...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,687 Views
33 Pages

Applications and Advancements of Spaceborne InSAR in Landslide Monitoring and Susceptibility Mapping: A Systematic Review

  • Yusen Cheng,
  • Hongli Pang,
  • Yangyang Li,
  • Lei Fan,
  • Shengjie Wei,
  • Ziwen Yuan and
  • Yinqing Fang

12 March 2025

Landslides pose significant threats to human safety and socio-economic development. In recent decades, interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) technology has emerged as a powerful tool for investigating landslides. This study systematically...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,111 Views
19 Pages

SARClust—A New Tool to Analyze InSAR Displacement Time Series for Structure Monitoring

  • Dora Roque,
  • Ana Paula Falcão,
  • Daniele Perissin,
  • Conceição Amado,
  • José V. Lemos and
  • Ana Fonseca

17 February 2023

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) has proved its efficiency for displacement monitoring in urban areas. However, the large volume of data generated by this technology turns the retrieval of information useful for structure monitoring i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
188 Views
23 Pages

Investigating Mining-Induced Surface Subsidence in Mountainous Areas Using Integrated InSAR and GNSS Monitoring

  • Qingfeng Hu,
  • Runjin Hou,
  • Yingchao Kou,
  • Peng Wang,
  • Zilin Liu,
  • Huaizhan Li,
  • Wenkai Liu,
  • Xinjing Wang,
  • Sihai Yi and
  • Qifan Wu
  • + 4 authors

13 February 2026

Leveraging the complementary advantages of InSAR and GNSS, this study proposes a refined method for monitoring mining-induced surface subsidence by integrating both technologies. The method begins with calculating the time-series cumulative subsidenc...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
57 Citations
8,617 Views
13 Pages

30 August 2017

Monitoring, assessing, and understanding the structural health of large infrastructures, such as buildings, bridges, dams, tunnels, and highways, is important for urban development and management, as the gradual deterioration of such structures may r...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,256 Views
26 Pages

24 November 2025

Monitoring civil infrastructure is increasingly critical due to aging assets, urban expansion, and the need for early detection of structural instabilities. Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) offers high-resolution, all-weather surface...

  • Article
  • Open Access
91 Citations
6,880 Views
24 Pages

Efficient Identification and Monitoring of Landslides by Time-Series InSAR Combining Single- and Multi-Look Phases

  • Zijing Liu,
  • Haijun Qiu,
  • Yaru Zhu,
  • Ya Liu,
  • Dongdong Yang,
  • Shuyue Ma,
  • Juanjuan Zhang,
  • Yuyao Wang,
  • Luyao Wang and
  • Bingzhe Tang

20 February 2022

Identification and monitoring of unstable slopes across wide regions using Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (InSAR) can further help to prevent and mitigate geological hazards. However, the low spatial density of measurement points (MPs) extra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,542 Views
22 Pages

17 March 2025

Ground-based global navigation satellite system (GNSS) and remote sensing interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) techniques have proven to be very useful for deformation monitoring. GNSS provides high-precision data but only at a limited nu...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,733 Views
17 Pages

Internet-of-Things-Based Geotechnical Monitoring Boosted by Satellite InSAR Data

  • Denis Guilhot,
  • Toni Martinez del Hoyo,
  • Andrea Bartoli,
  • Pooja Ramakrishnan,
  • Gijs Leemans,
  • Martijn Houtepen,
  • Jacqueline Salzer,
  • John S. Metzger and
  • Gintaris Maknavicius

14 July 2021

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,217 Views
21 Pages

An Improved R-Index Model for Terrain Visibility Analysis for Landslide Monitoring with InSAR

  • Tianhe Ren,
  • Wenping Gong,
  • Victor Mwango Bowa,
  • Huiming Tang,
  • Jun Chen and
  • Fumeng Zhao

16 May 2021

The interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) technique is widely adopted for detecting and monitoring landslides, but its effectiveness is often degraded in mountainous terrains, due to geometric distortions in the synthetic aperture radar (S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
732 Views
36 Pages

Critical Factors for the Application of InSAR Monitoring in Ports

  • Jaime Sánchez-Fernández,
  • Alfredo Fernández-Landa,
  • Álvaro Hernández Cabezudo and
  • Rafael Molina Sánchez

30 November 2025

Ports pose distinctive monitoring challenges due to harsh marine conditions, mixed construction typologies, and heterogeneous ground conditions. These factors complicate the routine use of satellite InSAR, especially when medium-resolution scatterers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,606 Views
19 Pages

27 April 2023

SAR interferometry (InSAR) has emerged in the big-data era, particularly benefitting from the acquisition capability and open-data policy of ESA’s Sentinel-1 SAR mission. A large number of Sentinel-1 SAR images have been acquired and archived,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,956 Views
20 Pages

6 December 2022

For approximately 100 years, the Houston region has been adversely impacted by land subsidence associated with excessive groundwater withdrawals. The rapidly growing population in the Houston region means the ongoing subsidence must be vigilantly mon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,540 Views
22 Pages

Nationwide, Operational Sentinel-1 Based InSAR Monitoring System in the Cloud for Strategic Water Facilities in Hungary

  • Levente Ronczyk,
  • András Zelenka-Hegyi,
  • Gábor Török,
  • Zoltán Orbán,
  • Marco Defilippi,
  • István Péter Kovács,
  • Dániel Márton Kovács,
  • Péter Burai and
  • Paolo Pasquali

6 July 2022

The intensive development of both interferometric technology and sensors in recent years allows Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR)-based applications to be accessible to a growing number of users. InSAR-based services now cover entire c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
352 Views
23 Pages

5 February 2026

Transportation infrastructure is vulnerable to heterogeneous deformation, yet such deformation remains insufficiently monitored and characterized in metropolitan regions due to the lack of high-resolution deformation gradient products and comparison...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,251 Views
14 Pages

InSAR Monitoring of Italian Coastline Revealing Natural and Anthropogenic Ground Deformation Phenomena and Future Perspectives

  • Marco Polcari,
  • Matteo Albano,
  • Antonio Montuori,
  • Christian Bignami,
  • Cristiano Tolomei,
  • Giuseppe Pezzo,
  • Sergio Falcone,
  • Carmelo La Piana,
  • Fawzi Doumaz and
  • Salvatore Stramondo
  • + 1 author

4 September 2018

In this work, we use X and C-band SAR data provided by the COSMO-SkyMed and ENVISAT missions to detect and measure some ground deformation phenomena along six coastal areas of Italy. In particular, we exploit multi-temporal interferometric synthetic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
6,399 Views
19 Pages

20 January 2023

Landslides along the Three Gorges Reservoir in China pose a threat to coastal residents and waterway safety. To reduce false positive misjudgments caused by a sudden local change in the landslide deformation curve, in this paper, we propose an effect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,279 Views
20 Pages

3 September 2023

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...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,590 Views
13 Pages

12 April 2023

InSARTrac is an innovative method for 3D displacement monitoring that combines terrestrial interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) and computer vision-based feature tracking. The 3D measurements obtained are considered far superior to 1D or...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,234 Views
15 Pages

CO2 Injection Deformation Monitoring Based on UAV and InSAR Technology: A Case Study of Shizhuang Town, Shanxi Province, China

  • Tian Zhang,
  • Wanchang Zhang,
  • Ruizhao Yang,
  • Dan Cao,
  • Longfei Chen,
  • Dewei Li and
  • Lingbin Meng

5 January 2022

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage, also referred to as Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration (CCUS), is one of the novel climate mitigation technologies by which CO2 emissions are captured from sources, such as fossil power generation a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
979 Views
18 Pages

25 September 2025

Timely and reliable surface deformation monitoring is critical for hazard prevention and resource management in mining areas. However, traditional Time-Series Interferometric (TSI) Synthetic Aperture Radar techniques often suffer from low coherent po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
810 Views
21 Pages

2 December 2025

Classical instrumental technologies still remain important among the geodetic methods of dam monitoring, but periodic observations are often insufficient for timely detection of hazardous deformations. Therefore, the integration of continuous and rem...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
146 Citations
10,387 Views
20 Pages

22 June 2018

Landslide identification and monitoring are two significant research aspects for landslide analysis. In addition, landslide mode deduction is key for the prevention of landslide hazards. Surface deformation results with different scales can serve for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,789 Views
17 Pages

Ground Deformations Controlled by Hidden Faults: Multi-Frequency and Multitemporal InSAR Techniques for Urban Hazard Monitoring

  • Federica Murgia,
  • Christian Bignami,
  • Carlo Alberto Brunori,
  • Cristiano Tolomei and
  • Luca Pizzimenti

26 September 2019

This work focuses on the study of land subsidence processes by means of multi-temporal and multi-frequency InSAR techniques. Specifically, we retrieve the long-term evolution (2003–2018) of the creeping phenomenon producing ground fissuring in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,271 Views
20 Pages

Countrywide Monitoring of Ground Deformation Using InSAR Time Series: A Case Study from Qatar

  • Mustafa Kemal Emil,
  • Mohamed Sultan,
  • Khaled Alakhras,
  • Guzalay Sataer,
  • Sabreen Gozi,
  • Mohammed Al-Marri and
  • Esayas Gebremichael

14 February 2021

Over the past few decades the country of Qatar has been one of the fastest growing economies in the Middle East; it has witnessed a rapid increase in its population, growth of its urban centers, and development of its natural resources. These anthrop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,749 Views
20 Pages

22 December 2022

Landslides are one of the extremely high-incidence and serious-loss geological disasters in the world, and the early monitoring and warning of landslides are of great importance. The Cheyiping landslide, located in western Yunnan Province, China, add...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,722 Views
17 Pages

Integration of Satellite InSAR with a Wireless Network of Geotechnical Sensors for Slope Monitoring in Urban Areas: The Pariana Landslide Case (Massa, Italy)

  • Andrea Ciampalini,
  • Paolo Farina,
  • Luca Lombardi,
  • Massimiliano Nocentini,
  • Veronica Taurino,
  • Roberto Guidi,
  • Fernando della Pina and
  • Davide Tavarini

29 June 2021

Slow to extremely slow landslides in urban areas may cause severe damage to buildings and infrastructure that can lead to the evacuation of local populations in case of slope accelerations. Monitoring the spatial and temporal evolution of this type o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,528 Views
20 Pages

31 July 2017

Continuously operating Global Navigation Satellite Systems (cGNSS) can be used to convert relative values of vertical land motion (VLM) derived from Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) to absolute values in a global or regional reference...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,399 Views
24 Pages

31 October 2022

The morphological changes in mountain glaciers are effective in indicating the environmental climate change in the alpine ice sheet. Aiming at the problems of single monitoring index and low prediction accuracy of mountain glacier deformation at pres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
537 Views
17 Pages

29 October 2025

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) technology is crucial for large-scale land subsidence analysis in cultivated areas within hilly and mountainous regions. Accurate prediction of this subsidence is of significant importance for agricult...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
7,831 Views
15 Pages

10 September 2019

The Generic Atmospheric Correction Online Service (GACOS) products for interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) are widely used near-real-time and global-coverage atmospheric delay products which provide a new approach for the atmospheric cor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
8,236 Views
21 Pages

An Integrated InSAR and GNSS Approach to Monitor Land Subsidence in the Po River Delta (Italy)

  • Massimo Fabris,
  • Mattia Battaglia,
  • Xue Chen,
  • Andrea Menin,
  • Michele Monego and
  • Mario Floris

4 November 2022

Land subsidence affects many areas of the world, posing a serious threat to human structures and infrastructures. It can be effectively monitored using ground-based and remote sensing techniques, such as the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
804 Views
26 Pages

Comparative Analysis of Tropospheric Correction Methods for Ground Deformation Monitoring over Mining Area with DS-InSAR

  • Yajie Meng,
  • Feng Zhao,
  • Yunjia Wang,
  • Liyong Li,
  • Bujun Hu,
  • Xianlong Xu,
  • Rui Wang,
  • Yifei Wei,
  • Kesheng Huang and
  • Lin Zhu
  • + 2 authors

24 November 2025

In recent years, differential synthetic aperture radar interferometry (DInSAR) has been widely used to monitor ground deformation induced by mineral resource exploitation. Compared with conventional DInSAR, InSAR time series (TS-InSAR) techniques off...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
7,256 Views
19 Pages

InSAR Monitoring of Landslide Activity in Dominica

  • Mary-Anne Fobert,
  • Vern Singhroy and
  • John G. Spray

23 February 2021

Dominica is a geologically young, volcanic island in the eastern Caribbean. Due to its rugged terrain, substantial rainfall, and distinct soil characteristics, it is highly vulnerable to landslides. The dominant triggers of these landslides are hurri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,183 Views
14 Pages

8 May 2024

Addressing the challenge of large-scale uneven deformation and the complexities of monitoring road conditions, this study focuses on a segment of the G15 Coastal Highway in Jiangsu Province. It employs PS-InSAR, SBAS-InSAR, and DS-InSAR techniques to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
7,295 Views
14 Pages

12 July 2017

Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (InSAR), widely applied for the monitoring of land subsidence, has the advantage of high accuracy and wide coverage. High-resolution SAR data offers a chance to reveal impressive details of large-scale man-made...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,798 Views
17 Pages

Monitoring Potential Geological Hazards with Different InSAR Algorithms: The Case of Western Sichuan

  • Zezhong Zheng,
  • Chuhang Xie,
  • Yong He,
  • Mingcang Zhu,
  • Weifeng Huang and
  • Tianming Shao

25 April 2022

In recent years, the number of geological disasters in Sichuan Province has significantly increased due to the influence of earthquakes and extreme climate, as well as the disturbance to the geological environment by human activities. Thus, geologica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,916 Views
25 Pages

Research on Time Series Monitoring of Surface Deformation in Tongliao Urban Area Based on SBAS-PS-DS-InSAR

  • Yuejuan Chen,
  • Cong Ding,
  • Pingping Huang,
  • Bo Yin,
  • Weixian Tan,
  • Yaolong Qi,
  • Wei Xu and
  • Siai Du

10 February 2024

As urban economies flourish and populations become increasingly concentrated, urban surface deformation has emerged as a critical factor in city planning that cannot be overlooked. Surface deformation in urban areas can lead to deformations in struct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,402 Views
14 Pages

9 November 2023

The Great Wall of China constitutes a significant cultural treasure of the Chinese nation and a valuable piece of heritage of world civilization. Owing to both natural and anthropogenic factors, the Great Wall is undergoing gradual deformation, there...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,496 Views
24 Pages

3D Monitoring of Buildings Using TerraSAR-X InSAR, DInSAR and PolSAR Capacities

  • Flora Weissgerber,
  • Elise Colin-Koeniguer,
  • Jean-Marie Nicolas and
  • Nicolas Trouvé

29 September 2017

The rapid expansion of cities increases the need of urban remote sensing for a large scale monitoring. This paper provides greater understanding of how TerraSAR-X (TSX) high-resolution abilities enable to reach the spatial precision required to monit...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
7,851 Views
19 Pages

Monitoring Deformation along Railway Systems Combining Multi-Temporal InSAR and LiDAR Data

  • Fengming Hu,
  • Freek J. van Leijen,
  • Ling Chang,
  • Jicang Wu and
  • Ramon F. Hanssen

2 October 2019

Multi-temporal interferometric synthetic aperture radar (MT-InSAR) can be applied to monitor the structural health of infrastructure such as railways, bridges, and highways. However, for the successful interpretation of the observed deformation withi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
7,818 Views
21 Pages

Monitoring of Ground Movement and Groundwater Changes in London Using InSAR and GRACE

  • Vivek Agarwal,
  • Amit Kumar,
  • Rachel L. Gomes and
  • Stuart Marsh

1 December 2020

Groundwater-induced land movement can cause damage to property and resources, thus its monitoring is very important for the safety and economics of a city. London is a heavily built-up urban area and relies largely on its groundwater resource and thu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
9,060 Views
28 Pages

remotIO: A Sentinel-1 Multi-Temporal InSAR Infrastructure Monitoring Service with Automatic Updates and Data Mining Capabilities

  • Matus Bakon,
  • Richard Czikhardt,
  • Juraj Papco,
  • Jan Barlak,
  • Martin Rovnak,
  • Peter Adamisin and
  • Daniele Perissin

11 June 2020

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
8,657 Views
18 Pages

27 April 2020

Time Series Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (TSInSAR) methods have been widely and successfully applied for spatiotemporal ground deformation monitoring. The main groups of methodological approaches are often referred to as Persistent Scatte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,805 Views
18 Pages

Deformation Monitoring and Analysis of Beichuan National Earthquake Ruins Museum Based on Time Series InSAR Processing

  • Jing Fan,
  • Weihong Wang,
  • Jialun Cai,
  • Zhouhang Wu,
  • Xiaomeng Wang,
  • Hui Feng,
  • Yitong Yao,
  • Hongyao Xiang and
  • Xinlong Luo

14 November 2024

Since the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, Old Beichuan County-town has experienced significant subsidence due to the disruption of the geological environment and the concurrent increase in precipitation. The ongoing land surface deformation poses a thre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,626 Views
15 Pages

Surface Subsidence Monitoring in Kunming City with Time-Series InSAR and GNSS

  • Shasha Zhu,
  • Xiaoqing Zuo,
  • Ke Shi,
  • Yongfa Li,
  • Shipeng Guo and
  • Chen Li

12 December 2022

Kunming city is located in the middle of Yunnan Province. Due to large-scale groundwater exploitation and urban development in recent years, this area has been affected by surface subsidence. In this paper, Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,887 Views
24 Pages

Combination of InSAR with a Depression Angle Model for 3D Deformation Monitoring in Mining Areas

  • Zhihong Wang,
  • Huayang Dai,
  • Yueguan Yan,
  • Jibo Liu and
  • Jintong Ren

29 March 2023

The current three-dimensional (3D) deformation monitoring methods, based on the single line-of-sight (LOS) interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) technology, are constructed by combining the deformation characteristics of mining subsidence...

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