Spaceborne SAR remote sensing for hydrogeological risk monitoring

Abstract

Landslide risk represents a major cause of injuries, property damage, socio-economic disruption and environmental degradation. Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a key remote sensing technology for Earth Observation (EO). In this work we focus on the use of advanced Differential Interferometric SAR (DInSAR) technique for the monitoring of areas prone to hydrogeological risk. Experimental results achieved by processing COSMO-SkyMed (CSK) and Sentinel-1 data will be shown over study cases located in the Italian territory.