Title
COSMO-SkyMed Spotlight Interferometry Over Rural Areas: The Slumgullion Landslide in Colorado, USA
Abstract
In the last 7 years, spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data with resolution of better than a meter acquired by satellites in spotlight mode offered an unprecedented improvement in SAR interferometry (InSAR). Most attention has been focused on monitoring urban areas and man-made infrastructure exploiting geometric accuracy, stability, and phase fidelity of the spotlight mode. In this paper, we explore the potential application of the COSMO-SkyMed® Spotlight mode to rural areas where decorrelation is substantial and rapidly increases with time. We focus on the rapid repeat times of as short as one day possible with the COSMO-SkyMed® constellation. We further present a qualitative analysis of spotlight interferometry over the Slumgullion landslide in southwest Colorado, which moves at rates of more than 1 cm/day.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2345664
Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, IEEE Journal of  
Keywords
Field
DocType
geometry,geomorphology,geophysical techniques,radar interferometry,spaceborne radar,synthetic aperture radar,cosmo-skymed constellation,cosmo-skymed spotlight interferometry,cosmo-skymed spotlight mode potential application,insar,sar data,sar interferometry,slumgullion landslide,usa,geometric accuracy,geometric stability,man-made infrastructure,rural area,short repeat time,southwest colorado,spaceborne synthetic aperture radar data,spotlight interferometry qualitative analysis,spotlight mode phase fidelity,urban area monitoring,cosmo-skymed (csk),sar interferometry (insar),landslide,spotlight interferometry,radar tracking,satellites,azimuth,interferometry
Satellite,Interferometric synthetic aperture radar,Synthetic aperture radar,Remote sensing,Interferometry,Rural area,Metre (music),Landslide,Geodesy,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
7
7
1939-1404
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.97
5
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
pietro milillo1639.39
Eric J. Fielding2478.99
william h shulz3120.97
brent delbridge4131.32
roland burgmann5132.34