Title
Preliminary analysis of a correlation between ground deformations and rainfall: the Ivancich landslide, central Italy
Abstract
We exploited Differential Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (DInSAR) to investigate the geographical and the temporal pattern of ground deformations in the Ivancich landslide area, Assisi, Italy, in the 18.4-year period April 1992 - September 2010. We used SAR data obtained by the European Remote Sensing (ERS-1/2) satellites in the period April 1992 - July 2007, and SAR data captured by the ASAR sensor on board the Envisat satellite in the period October 2003 - September 2010. We used the Small Baseline Subset (SBAS) technique to process the SAR data, obtaining full resolution measurements for multiple radar targets inside and outside the landslide area, and the history of deformation of the individual targets. The geographical pattern of the ground deformation was found consistent with independent topographic information. The deformation time series of the individual targets were compared to the rainfall history in the area. Results revealed the lack of an immediate effect of rainfall on the ground deformation, and confirmed the existence of a complex temporal interaction between the rainfall and the ground deformation histories in the landslide area. Availability of very long, spatially distributed time series of surface deformation has provided an unprecedented opportunity to investigate the history of the active landslide area.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1117/12.899453
Proceedings of SPIE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Ground Deformation,Landslide,DinSAR,SBAS,Rainfall,Assisi
Radar,Satellite,Topographic map,Synthetic aperture radar,Remote sensing,GNSS augmentation,Interferometry,Landslide,Geography,Precipitation
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
8179
0277-786X
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
5
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
francesca ardizzone1203.26
Mauro Rossi29115.55
Fabiana Calò3617.38
luca paglia4161.50
Michele Manunta525131.65
alessandro cesare mondini6172.53
Zeni, G.710.72
P. Reichenbach8162.18
Riccardo Lanari919950.16
Fausto Guzzetti10193.35