Early Warning Monitoring of Natural and Engineered Slopes with Ground-Based Synthetic-Aperture Radar

Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 235-246

  Atzeni, C ^a   Barla, M ^b   Pieraccini, M ^a   Antolini, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Landslide; Monitoring; Radar; Rock slopes

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; LANDSLIDES; MONITORING; OPEN PIT MINING; RADAR;

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; GROUND-BASED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; LEADING EDGE TOOLS; MONITORING TECHNOLOGIES; NEAR-REAL-TIME MONITORING; ROCK SLOPE; SENSOR PERFORMANCE;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84920707566     PISSN: 07232632     EISSN: 1434453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00603-014-0554-4     Document Type: Article

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