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  • Open Access
44 Citations
9,671 Views
25 Pages

17 August 2016

Sub-Pixel Offset Tracking (sPOT) is applied to derive high-resolution centimetre-level landslide rates in the Three Gorges Region of China using TerraSAR-X Hi-resolution Spotlight (TSX HS) space-borne SAR images. These results contrast sharply with p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,875 Views
13 Pages

Long-Term Satellite Monitoring of the Slumgullion Landslide Using Space-Borne Synthetic Aperture Radar Sub-Pixel Offset Tracking

  • Donato Amitrano,
  • Raffaella Guida,
  • Domenico Dell’Aglio,
  • Gerardo Di Martino,
  • Diego Di Martire,
  • Antonio Iodice,
  • Mario Costantini,
  • Fabio Malvarosa and
  • Federico Minati

12 February 2019

Kinematic characterization of a landslide at large, small, and detailed scale is today still rare and challenging, especially for long periods, due to the difficulty in implementing demanding ground surveys with adequate spatiotemporal coverage. In t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,733 Views
31 Pages

6 March 2018

This paper presents an analysis of the integration between interferometric and intensity-offset tracking-based SAR remote sensing for landslide hazard mitigation in the Italian Alps. Despite the advantages of Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
8,070 Views
21 Pages

14 December 2017

Sub-pixel offset tracking has been used in various applications, including measurements of glacier movement, earthquakes, landslides, etc., as a complementary method to time series InSAR. In this work, we explore the use of a small baseline subset (S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
121 Citations
10,740 Views
18 Pages

Monitoring Mining Subsidence Using A Combination of Phase-Stacking and Offset-Tracking Methods

  • Hongdong Fan,
  • Xiaoxiong Gao,
  • Junkai Yang,
  • Kazhong Deng and
  • Yang Yu

17 July 2015

An approach to study the mechanism of mining-induced subsidence, using a combination of phase-stacking and sub-pixel offset-tracking methods, is reported. In this method, land subsidence with a small deformation gradient was calculated using time-ser...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,103 Views
19 Pages

10 July 2019

In this paper, we propose a novel strategy to estimate the micro-motion (m-m) of ships from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. To this end, observe that the problem of motion and m-m detection of targets is usually solved using synthetic aperture...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,799 Views
22 Pages

29 March 2019

In past research, the problem of maritime targets detection and motion parameter estimation has been tackled. This new research aims to contribute by estimating the micro-motion of ships while they are anchored in port or stationed at the roadstead f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,748 Views
16 Pages

14 September 2019

We use both Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Optical data to constrain the co-seismic ground deformation produced by the 2018 Mw 7.5 Sulawesi earthquake. We exploit data processing techniques mainly based on pixel cross-correlation approach, applie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,667 Views
19 Pages

8 December 2021

As one of the most sensitive indicators of global climate change, seasonal ice-covered lakes are attracting gaining attention worldwide. As a large seasonal ice-covered lake located in Northern Mongolia, Lake Khovsgol not only provides important fres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,424 Views
17 Pages

Coseismic Slip Distribution and Coulomb Stress Change of the 2023 MW 7.8 Pazarcik and MW 7.5 Elbistan Earthquakes in Turkey

  • Xiaofeng Dai,
  • Xin Liu,
  • Rui Liu,
  • Menghao Song,
  • Guangbin Zhu,
  • Xiaotao Chang and
  • Jinyun Guo

8 January 2024

On 6 February 2023, the MW 7.8 Pazarcik and the MW 7.5 Elbistan earthquakes occurred in southeastern Turkey, close to the Syrian border, causing many deaths and a great deal of property destruction. The Pazarcik earthquake mainly damaged the East Ana...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,288 Views
13 Pages

19 May 2023

In February 2023, Mw 7.8 and Mw 7.7 earthquakes struck southeastern Turkey. Generating a coseismic 3D deformation field that can directly reflect the characteristics of surface deformation is important for revealing the movement mode of a seismogenic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,835 Views
14 Pages

Laser drilling is widely used for fabricating holes in the semiconductor industry due to high throughput and a small heat-affected zone. However, it produces varying depths owing to uncertain external conditions and requires live control at the rate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
8,647 Views
13 Pages

28 July 2016

Landslide monitoring is important for geological disaster prevention, where Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images have been widely used. Compared with the Interferometric SAR (InSAR) technique, intensity-based offset tracking methods (e.g., Normalize...

  • Article
  • Open Access
795 Views
20 Pages

25 October 2025

Monitoring large-gradient surface displacement caused by underground mining remains a significant challenge for conventional Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)-based techniques. This study introduces optical flow methods to monitor large-gradient displac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,752 Views
17 Pages

Fiduciary-Free Frame Alignment for Robust Time-Lapse Drift Correction Estimation in Multi-Sample Cell Microscopy

  • Stefan Baar,
  • Masahiro Kuragano,
  • Naoki Nishishita,
  • Kiyotaka Tokuraku and
  • Shinya Watanabe

When analyzing microscopic time-lapse observations, frame alignment is an essential task to visually understand the morphological and translation dynamics of cells and tissue. While in traditional single-sample microscopy, the region of interest (RoI...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,593 Views
19 Pages

Phase-Based GLRT Detection of Moving Targets with Pixel Tracking in Low-Resolution SAR Image Sequences

  • Yulun Li,
  • Chunsheng Li,
  • Xiaodong Peng,
  • Shuo Li,
  • Hongcheng Zeng and
  • Wei Yang

26 September 2021

Spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can provide ground area monitoring with large coverage. However, achieving a wide observation scope comes at the cost of resolution reduction owing to the trade-off between these parameters in conventional SA...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,829 Views
26 Pages

29 January 2019

The Slumgullion landslide, located in southwestern Colorado, has been active since the early 1700s and current data suggests that the most active portion of the slide creeps at a rate of ~1.5–2.0 cm/day. Accurate deformation measurement techniq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,954 Views
20 Pages

An Improved Source Model of the 2021 Mw 6.1 Yangbi Earthquake (Southwest China) Based on InSAR and BOI Datasets

  • Hao Lu,
  • Guangcai Feng,
  • Lijia He,
  • Jihong Liu,
  • Hua Gao,
  • Yuedong Wang,
  • Xiongxiao Wu,
  • Yuexin Wang,
  • Qi An and
  • Yingang Zhao

26 September 2022

The azimuth displacement derived by pixel offset tracking (POT) or multiple aperture InSAR (MAI) measurements is usually used to characterize the north-south coseismic deformation caused by large earthquakes (M > 6.5), but its application in the s...