Slope stability assessment of the sarcheshmeh landslide, northeast Iran, investigated using InSAR and GPS observations

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 3681-3700

  Akbarimehr, Mehrdad ^a   Motagh, Mahdi ^b   Haghshenas Haghighi, Mahmud ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Displacement; GPS; InSAR; Landslide; Slope stability

Indexed keywords

ANCIENT LANDSLIDE; DISPLACEMENT; HYDROGEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; INSAR; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; PRECIPITATION LEVEL; STABILITY ASSESSMENT; SURFACE DISPLACEMENT MAPS;

DAMAGE DETECTION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LANDSLIDES; SLOPE STABILITY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYSTEM STABILITY;

SLOPE PROTECTION;

EID: 84884694418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5083681     Document Type: Article

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