Integrated monitoring of lateral spreading phenomena along the north-west coast of the Island of Malta

Landslide Science and Practice: Early Warning, Instrumentation and Monitoring

Volumn 2, Issue , 2013, Pages 235-241

  Devoto, Stefano ^a   Forte, Emanuele ^b   Mantovani, Matteo ^c   Mocnik, Arianna ^b   Pasuto, Alessandro ^c   Piacentini, Daniela ^a   Soldati, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coastal instability; GPR; GPS; Malta; Rock spreading; SAR interferometry

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETRY; LANDFORMS; LANDSLIDES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

GEOPHYSICAL ANALYSIS; GROUND DEFORMATIONS; INTEGRATED MONITORING; MALTA; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH; RESEARCH ACTIVITIES; SAR INTERFEROMETRY; TOURIST ATTRACTIONS;

ROCKS;

EID: 84898081213     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31445-2_30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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