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View article: Machine learning and clustering for supporting the identification of active landslides at national scale
Machine learning and clustering for supporting the identification of active landslides at national scale Open
View article: Linking glacier retreat with climate change on the Tibetan Plateau through satellite remote sensing
Linking glacier retreat with climate change on the Tibetan Plateau through satellite remote sensing Open
Under global climate change, glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau are experiencing severe retreat, which significantly impacts the regional water cycle and the occurrence of natural hazards. However, detailed insights into the spatiotemporal pa…
View article: Linking Glacier Retreat with Climate Change on the Tibetan Plateau through Satellite Remote Sensing
Linking Glacier Retreat with Climate Change on the Tibetan Plateau through Satellite Remote Sensing Open
Under global climate change, glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau are experiencing severe retreat, which significantly impacts the regional water cycle and the occurrence of natural hazards. However, detailed insights into the spatial-temporal …
View article: ADATools: free and user-friendly tools to semiautomatically extract and analyse wide PSI displacement maps. Applications to the European Ground Motion Service (EGMS). 
ADATools: free and user-friendly tools to semiautomatically extract and analyse wide PSI displacement maps. Applications to the European Ground Motion Service (EGMS).  Open
The availability of displacement maps across extensive regions, based on Multi-Temporal SAR satellite interferometry techniques (MT-InSAR), has notably increased in recent years. The launch of the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites in 2014, …
View article: Semi-automatic analysis of InSAR large datasets for landslide mapping and monitoring: the Great Britain case study
Semi-automatic analysis of InSAR large datasets for landslide mapping and monitoring: the Great Britain case study Open
In recent years, satellite-SAR interferometry has established itself as a widely used global monitoring technique, enabling timely detection, monitoring and mitigation of both natural disasters and human-induced ground movements. When deal…
View article: Mapping and monitoring ground deformations: Insights from a Sentinel-1 Persistent Scatterer Interferometry study in Northeastern Italy
Mapping and monitoring ground deformations: Insights from a Sentinel-1 Persistent Scatterer Interferometry study in Northeastern Italy Open
Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI) is a valuable technique for investigating shallow ground displacement phenomena, such as slow landslides and subsidence. Its flexibility in time intervals and spatial scales allows to use PSI as an…
View article: Sinkhole risk mapping and early warning: the case of Camaiore (Italy)
Sinkhole risk mapping and early warning: the case of Camaiore (Italy) Open
Introduction: Sinkholes are ground collapses that can cause significant damage to infrastructure and buildings. Part of the risk represented by sinkholes is related to their abruptness and the difficulty in spotting in advance their exact …
View article: Machine learning model to assess the spatial probability of Sentinel-1 based deformation trend changes
Machine learning model to assess the spatial probability of Sentinel-1 based deformation trend changes Open
Satellite ground deformation monitoring is now a well-established reality and the MTInSAR (Multi-Temporal Interferometry Synthetic Aperture Radar) techniques have widely demonstrated their feasibility for detecting a wide range of slow-mov…
View article: Sinkhole risk assessment by using machine learning model: the case study of Guidonia-Bagni di Tivoli plain (Rome), Italy
Sinkhole risk assessment by using machine learning model: the case study of Guidonia-Bagni di Tivoli plain (Rome), Italy Open
Sinkholes that occur in settled carbonate lands can be a critical source of risk for human properties and activities since they can abruptly produce serious damage to property and people in densely populated flat areas.…
View article: Advanced Technologies for Landslides—ATLaS (WCoE 2020–2023)
Advanced Technologies for Landslides—ATLaS (WCoE 2020–2023) Open
The UNESCO Chair on Prevention and Sustainable Management of Geo-Hydrological Hazards, University of Florence has been a member of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) since 2002. It was designated as one of World Centres of Ex…
View article: Machine learning for sinkhole risk mapping in Guidonia-Bagni di Tivoli plain (Rome), Italy
Machine learning for sinkhole risk mapping in Guidonia-Bagni di Tivoli plain (Rome), Italy Open
This work presents a sinkhole susceptibility and risk assessment mapping in Guidonia-Bagni di Tivoli plain (Italy), a travertine sinkhole-prone area where sudden occurrences of sinkholes have happened in past and recent times. We collected…
View article: Shallow Landslides and Rockfalls Velocity Assessment at Regional Scale: A Methodology Based on a Morphometric Approach
Shallow Landslides and Rockfalls Velocity Assessment at Regional Scale: A Methodology Based on a Morphometric Approach Open
Velocity is one of the most important parameters to evaluate the damaging potential of a mass movement, but its assessment, especially for extremely rapid landslides, is a complex task. In the literature, several models to assess mass move…
View article: Machine Learning for Defining the Probability of Sentinel-1 Based Deformation Trend Changes Occurrence
Machine Learning for Defining the Probability of Sentinel-1 Based Deformation Trend Changes Occurrence Open
The continuous monitoring of displacements occurring on the Earth surface by exploiting MTInSAR (Multi Temporal Interferometry SAR) Sentinel-1 data is a solid reality, as testified by the ongoing operational ground motion service in the Tu…
View article: Considerations on regional continuous Sentinel-1 monitoring services over three different regions
Considerations on regional continuous Sentinel-1 monitoring services over three different regions Open
<p>In 2016, a first worldwide continuous monitoring was proposed and implemented over the Tuscany Region (central Italy). It was the first application of SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) images for continuous monitoring of on-going gro…
View article: Sentinel-1-based monitoring services at regional scale in Italy: State of the art and main findings
Sentinel-1-based monitoring services at regional scale in Italy: State of the art and main findings Open
In Italy, three different operational continuous monitoring experiences based on the exploitation of Multi Temporal Synthetic Aperture Radar data (MTInSAR) Sentinel-1 data are here depicted, and the results obtained in one year have been a…
View article: Integration of Satellite Interferometric Data in Civil Protection Strategies for Landslide Studies at a Regional Scale
Integration of Satellite Interferometric Data in Civil Protection Strategies for Landslide Studies at a Regional Scale Open
Multi-Temporal Satellite Interferometry (MTInSAR) is gradually evolving from being a tool developed by the scientific community exclusively for research purposes to a real operational technique that can meet the needs of different users in…
View article: Review of Works Combining GNSS and InSAR in Europe
Review of Works Combining GNSS and InSAR in Europe Open
The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (InSAR) can be combined to achieve different goals, owing to their main principles. Both enable the collection of information about ground deformatio…
View article: From Sentinel-1 data processing to field survey: an operating workflow for the continuous monitoring of the Earth surface deformations
From Sentinel-1 data processing to field survey: an operating workflow for the continuous monitoring of the Earth surface deformations Open
<p>The launch of the Sentinel-1 constellation by the European Copernicus Program, primarily devoted to scientific community research, has allowed acquiring huge volumes of radar images with worldwide coverage and a short temporal sam…
View article: Ground motion detection in a salt solution mining area, an application of Multi-Temporal Satellite Interferometry
Ground motion detection in a salt solution mining area, an application of Multi-Temporal Satellite Interferometry Open
<p>Subsurface mining is one of the human activities with the highest impact in terms of induced ground motion. The excavation of the mining layers creates a geotechnically and hydrogeologically unstable context. The generation of chi…
View article: Multi-Temporal Satellite Interferometry for Fast-Motion Detection: An Application to Salt Solution Mining
Multi-Temporal Satellite Interferometry for Fast-Motion Detection: An Application to Salt Solution Mining Open
Underground mining is one of the human activities with the highest impact in terms of induced ground motion. The excavation of the mining levels creates pillars, rooms and cavities that can evolve in chimney collapses and sinkholes. This i…
View article: Regional Recognition and Classification of Active Loess Landslides Using Two-Dimensional Deformation Derived from Sentinel-1 Interferometric Radar Data
Regional Recognition and Classification of Active Loess Landslides Using Two-Dimensional Deformation Derived from Sentinel-1 Interferometric Radar Data Open
Identification and classification of landslides is a preliminary and crucial work for landslide risk assessment and hazard mitigation. The exploitation of surface deformation velocity derived from satellite synthetic aperture radar interfe…
View article: Review of Satellite Interferometry for Landslide Detection in Italy
Review of Satellite Interferometry for Landslide Detection in Italy Open
Landslides recurrently impact the Italian territory, producing huge economic losses and casualties. Because of this, there is a large demand for monitoring tools to support landslide management strategies. Among the variety of remote sensi…
View article: How to manage a monitoring service based on satellite interferometry: a practical approach from the Tuscany region (central Italy)
How to manage a monitoring service based on satellite interferometry: a practical approach from the Tuscany region (central Italy) Open
<p>Thanks to the launch of the ESA’s Sentinel-1 constellation the scientific community re-evaluated the way to use these data, shifting from a static view of the territory to a continuous streaming of ground motion measurem…
View article: Continuous monitoring of ground deformational scenario of Veneto region (Italy) through Sentinel-1 data
Continuous monitoring of ground deformational scenario of Veneto region (Italy) through Sentinel-1 data Open
<p>Continuous monitoring of the Earth surface is fundamental for the development and the evolution of the society, to reduce the risks posed by major geo-hazards like landslides, subsidence and sinkholes, which have a large impact on…
View article: Satellite interferometric data for landslide intensity evaluation in mountainous regions
Satellite interferometric data for landslide intensity evaluation in mountainous regions Open
View article: A procedure to use GNSS data to calibrate satellite PSI data for the study of subsidence:an example from the north-western Adriatic coast (Italy)
A procedure to use GNSS data to calibrate satellite PSI data for the study of subsidence:an example from the north-western Adriatic coast (Italy) Open
Multi-temporal interferometric Persistent Scatterers Interferometry (PSI) techniques derive from the elaboration of satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images and represent a useful tool to detect ground millimetric movements over wid…
View article: Ground Subsidence Susceptibility (GSS) Mapping in Grosseto Plain (Tuscany, Italy) Based on Satellite InSAR Data Using Frequency Ratio and Fuzzy Logic
Ground Subsidence Susceptibility (GSS) Mapping in Grosseto Plain (Tuscany, Italy) Based on Satellite InSAR Data Using Frequency Ratio and Fuzzy Logic Open
This study aimed at evaluating and mapping Ground Subsidence Susceptibility (GSS) in the Grosseto plain (Tuscany Region, Italy) by exploiting multi-temporal satellite InSAR data and by applying two parallel approaches; a bivariate statisti…
View article: Detection of Seasonal Inundations by Satellite Data at Shkoder Urban Area, North Albania for Sustainable Management
Detection of Seasonal Inundations by Satellite Data at Shkoder Urban Area, North Albania for Sustainable Management Open
The European Space Agency satellites Sentinel-1 radar and Sentinel-2 optical data are widely used in water surface mapping and management. In this work, we exploit the potentials of both radar and optical images for satellite-based quick d…
View article: Persistent Scatterers continuous streaming for landslide monitoring and mapping: the case of the Tuscany region (Italy)
Persistent Scatterers continuous streaming for landslide monitoring and mapping: the case of the Tuscany region (Italy) Open
View article: Monitoring Ground Instabilities Using SAR Satellite Data: A Practical Approach
Monitoring Ground Instabilities Using SAR Satellite Data: A Practical Approach Open
Satellite interferometric data are widely exploited for ground motion monitoring thanks to their wide area coverage, cost efficiency and non-invasiveness. The launch of the Sentinel-1 constellation opened new horizons for interferometric a…