{"title":"Analysis of displacement time series from multitemporal SAR interferometry (Conference Presentation)","authors":"G. Pasquariello, F. Bovenga, A. Refice","doi":"10.1117/12.2533608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2533608","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":117101,"journal":{"name":"Active and Passive Microwave Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring III","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124287630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of a consistent soil moisture decadal data record from multiple satellites (Conference Presentation)","authors":"S. Chan, R. Bindlish","doi":"10.1117/12.2532598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2532598","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":117101,"journal":{"name":"Active and Passive Microwave Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring III","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124486042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PRAT-Pseudo Random Active Transmitter: a viable alternative to compact active transponders (Conference Presentation)","authors":"C. Guaragnella, F. Bovenga","doi":"10.1117/12.2533633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2533633","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":117101,"journal":{"name":"Active and Passive Microwave Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring III","volume":"162 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122494945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Santi, S. Paloscia, S. Pettinato, G. Fontanelli, L. Guerriero, N. Pierdicca, M. Clarizia
{"title":"Global monitoring of forest biomass using GNSS reflectometry (Conference Presentation)","authors":"E. Santi, S. Paloscia, S. Pettinato, G. Fontanelli, L. Guerriero, N. Pierdicca, M. Clarizia","doi":"10.1117/12.2534676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2534676","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":117101,"journal":{"name":"Active and Passive Microwave Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring III","volume":"413 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122793928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Pierdicca, M. Davidson, M. Chini, W. Dierking, S. Djavidnia, Joerg Haarpaintner, G. Hajduch, G. V. Laurin, M. Lavalle, C. López-Martínez, T. Nagler, B. Su
{"title":"The Copernicus L-band SAR mission ROSE-L (Radar Observing System for Europe) (Conference Presentation)","authors":"N. Pierdicca, M. Davidson, M. Chini, W. Dierking, S. Djavidnia, Joerg Haarpaintner, G. Hajduch, G. V. Laurin, M. Lavalle, C. López-Martínez, T. Nagler, B. Su","doi":"10.1117/12.2534743","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2534743","url":null,"abstract":"A fundamental element of Copernicus, the EU's Earth Observation and monitoring programme, is the development and operation of an independent, dedicated and sustained space-based observation infrastructure. Six series of so-called Sentinel satellites ensure continuity until 2026-2028 (First Generation). The “CSC Expansion” programme includes the new missions that have been identified by the European Commission (EC) as priorities for implementation in the coming years.\u0000Among the new missions presently under preliminary design phase, the Copernicus L-band SAR will support key European policy objectives through the filling of observation gaps in the current Copernicus satellite constellation and will provide enhanced continuity for diverse operational services, supporting the down-stream commercial and institutional users.\u0000The mission is presently named “Radar Observing System for Europe L” (ROSE-L), to indicate its capability to work in synergy with other Copernicus SAR-based space elements operating at a different frequency (particularly Sentinel-1 operating at C-band) as an element of a System of Systems (SoS). In the frame of the work carried out to preliminarily design the system, the ESA Mission Advisory Group (MAG) helps to advice on the mission requirements. The requirements are mainly inspired by the Copernicus service needs, that are being collected by the MAG looking at previous studies, at the EC Copernicus Service evolution document, as well as at the outcome of specialised workshops in diverse application fields.\u0000Due to the longer wavelength and enhanced penetration capabilities, L-Band SAR observations from space provide additional information that cannot be gathered by other means, for instance on volumetric targets (vegetation, forest, ice, etc…) or on moisture content. ROSE-L is capable to address important measurement gaps from space, leveraging unique information on land, disasters and geohazards and the cryosphere. This includes the collection of ground motion and high-resolution soil moisture information on vegetated areas, the provision of vegetation biomass data, improved land cover. The quantification of the vegetation scattering contribution is another key factor to ensure a better coherence of the signal for interferometric applications. The unique interaction mechanisms of L-band longer wavelength will also bring additional information when exploiting multifrequency datasets, e.g., for sea ice observations. Being an element of a complex mission system, ROSE-L will support the overall continuity of the Copernicus observations, e.g., improving their accuracy, the products quality, the temporal and spatial resolution of collected data. \u0000A summary of what ROSE-L will be able to provide to the user community will be given during the conference, discussing what unique information can be gathered at L-band and which mission performance parameters (resolution and coverage) are considered necessary to fulfill the user needs.","PeriodicalId":117101,"journal":{"name":"Active and Passive Microwave Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring III","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125011224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Bovenga, A. Refice, G. Pasquariello, G. Spilotro, R. Nutricato, D. Nitti, M. Chiaradia, I. Argentiero, R. Pellicani
{"title":"Investigating slope instabilities through SAR interferometry: examples on hilly villages in Southern Italy (Conference Presentation)","authors":"F. Bovenga, A. Refice, G. Pasquariello, G. Spilotro, R. Nutricato, D. Nitti, M. Chiaradia, I. Argentiero, R. Pellicani","doi":"10.1117/12.2533639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2533639","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-temporal SAR interferometry (MTInSAR), by providing both mean displacement maps and displacement time series over coherent objects on the Earth, allows analysing wide areas, identifying critical ground instabilities, and studying the phenomenon evolution in a long time-scale. This technique has been proved to be very useful for detecting and monitoring also slope instabilities.\u0000Nowadays, several satellite missions are available providing InSAR data at different wavelengths, spatial resolutions, and revisit time. The high-resolution X-Band COSMO-SkyMed constellation, acquires data with spatial resolution reaching metric values, and provides revisit times of up to a few days, leading to an increase in the density of the measurable targets, thus improving the monitoring of local scale events as well as the detection of non-linear displacements. The recent Sentinel-1 C-band mission from the European Space Agency (ESA), provides a spatial resolution comparable to the previous ESA missions, but a nominal revisit time reduced to 6 days. By offering regular global-scale coverage, better temporal resolution and freely available imagery, Sentinel-1 improves the performance of MTInSAR for ground displacement investigations. In particular, the short revisit time allows a better time series analysis by improving the temporal sampling and the chances to catch pre-failure signals characterised by high rate and non-linear behaviour signals. Moreover, it allows collecting large data stacks in a short time period, thus improving the MTInSAR performance in emergency (post-event) scenarios. These characteristics are very promising for early warning of slope failure events and monitoring subsequent displacements trends. \u0000In this work, we present the results obtained by using both COSMO-SkyMed and Sentinel-1 data for investigating the ground stability of hilly villages located in Southern Italian Apennine (Basilicata region). In the area of interest, several landslides occurred in the recent past (e.g. on Montescaglioso in 2013) and also very recently (e.g. on Pomarico in 2019), causing damages to houses, commercial buildings, and infrastructures.\u0000SAR datasets acquired by COSMO-SkyMed and Sentinel-1 from both ascending and descending orbits have been processed by using SPINUA MTInSAR algorithm, in order to exploit the potentials of these two satellite missions to investigate ground displacements related to the slope instabilities. Mean velocity maps and displacement time series have been analysed looking, in particular, to non-linear trends that are possibly related to relevant ground instabilities and, thanks to the high spatial resolution, useful in terms of early warning, in the case of rigid soil masses. Results are presented and discussed in relation to the well know events occurred in the area of interest.","PeriodicalId":117101,"journal":{"name":"Active and Passive Microwave Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring III","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125840979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}