Ground subsidence phenomena in the Delta municipality region (Northern Greece): Geotechnical modeling and validation with Persistent Scatterer Interferometry

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 78-89

  Raspini, Federico ^a   Loupasakis, Constantinos ^b   Rozos, Dimitrios ^b   Adam, Nico ^c   Moretti, Sandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Greece; Kalochori; Persistent scatterers; Satellite SAR interferometry; Subsidence modeling; Wide area product

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DELTA; DISPLACEMENT; ERS-1; ERS-2; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; RADAR IMAGERY; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SUBSIDENCE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES;

CENTRAL MACEDONIA; GREECE; THESSALONIKI [CENTRAL MACEDONIA];

EID: 84897435799     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2013.11.010     Document Type: Article

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