Land subsidence in the Firenze-Prato-Pistoia basin measured by means of spaceborne SAR interferometry

Author

Colombo, D. ; Farina, P. ; Moretti, S. ; Nico, G. ; Prati, C.

Author_Institution

Tele-Rilevamento Europa, Milan, Italy

Volume

4

fYear

2003

fDate

21-25 July 2003

Firstpage

2927

Abstract

This work concerns the application of space-borne SAR interferometry (InSAR) to the study of the land subsidence problem affecting the urban areas of the Firenze-Prato-Pistoia basin (Central Italy). Such a phenomenon is mainly related to the large amount of ground-water pumped for the industrial activities of this area. The interferometric analysis has been carried out by means of both traditional Differential Interferometry (DInSAR) and Permanent Scatterers technique (PS) by using SAR data acquired by the ESA ERS1/2 satellites. Different patterns of terrain subsidence have been detected in the industrial areas of the monitored basin.

Keywords

radiowave interferometry; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; topography (Earth); ESA ERS1/2 satellites; Firenze-Prato-Pistoia basin; central Italy; differential interferometry; land subsidence; permanent scatterers; spaceborne SAR interferometry; synthetic aperture radar; terrain subsidence; Atmospheric measurements; Data analysis; Geoscience; Monitoring; Rivers; Satellites; Scattering; Synthetic aperture radar; Synthetic aperture radar interferometry; Urban areas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2003. IGARSS '03. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7929-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2003.1294634

Filename

1294634