Surface subsidence and uplift above a headrace tunnel in metamorphic basement rocks of the Swiss Alps as detected by satellite SAR interferometry

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1353-1360

  Strozzi, Tazio ^a   Delaloye, Reynald ^b   Poffet, Damien ^b   Hansmann, Jürgen ^c   Loew, Simon ^c  

^a GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fractured rock; Groundwater drainage; Satellite SAR interferometry; Surface subsidence; Swiss Alps; Tunnel construction

Indexed keywords

FRACTURED ROCK; GROUNDWATER DRAINAGE; SATELLITE SAR INTERFEROMETRY; SURFACE SUBSIDENCE; SWISS ALPS; TUNNEL CONSTRUCTION;

DRAINAGE; GROUNDWATER; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETRY; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; PORE PRESSURE; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCKS; SATELLITES; SUBSIDENCE; UNDERWATER CONSTRUCTION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BASEMENT ROCK; DRAINAGE NETWORK; GROUNDWATER FLOW; METAMORPHIC ROCK; PORE PRESSURE; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; ROCK MASS RESPONSE; SEA LEVEL; SUBSIDENCE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TUNNEL;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 79953166717     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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