Land subsidence along the Ionian coast of SE Sicily (Italy), detection and analysis via Small Baseline Subset (SBAS) multitemporal differential SAR interferometry

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 273-286

  Canova, Fabio ^a   Tolomei, Cristiano ^b   Salvi, Stefano ^b   Toscani, Giovanni ^a   Seno, Silvio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aquifer system compaction; Radar interferometry; SBAS; South eastern Sicily; Subsidence

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SURFACES; AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES; AQUIFER-SYSTEM COMPACTION; CLIMATIC FEATURES; COASTAL AREA; D-INSAR; DEFORMATION PATTERN; DEFORMATION RATES; DIFFERENTIAL INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; DIFFERENTIAL SAR INTERFEROMETRY; DISPLACEMENT TIME SERIES; ELASTIC DEFORMATION MODELS; EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING SATELLITES; FIRST-ORDER; GEOLOGICAL DATA; GROUND VELOCITY; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HIGH DENSITY; KRIGING; LAND SUBSIDENCE; LARGE DATA; MULTI-TEMPORAL; MULTIDIMENSIONAL INTERPOLATIONS; OVEREXPLOITATION; PLEISTOCENE; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SBAS; SMALL BASELINE SUBSETS; SOUTH-EASTERN SICILY; STUDY AREAS; TIME-PERIODS; VELOCITY PROFILES;

AQUIFERS; COASTAL ZONES; DEFORMATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; INTERFEROMETRY; LITHOLOGY; SUBSIDENCE; TIME SERIES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DETECTION METHOD; ERS-1; ERS-2; FORELAND BASIN; GPS; INTERFEROMETRY; KRIGING; LITHOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SEISMICITY; SUBSIDENCE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 84857689834     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2238     Document Type: Article

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