State of the art and recent advancements in the modelling of land subsidence induced by groundwater withdrawal

A Guzy, AA Malinowska - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
Land subsidence is probably one of the most evident environmental effects of groundwater
pum**. Globally, freshwater demand is the leading cause of this phenomenon. Land …

Space-based earth observations for disaster risk management

G Le Cozannet, M Kervyn, S Russo… - Surveys in …, 2020 - Springer
As space-based Earth observations are delivering a growing amount and variety of data, the
potential of this information to better support disaster risk management is coming into …

Present-day land subsidence rates, surface faulting hazard and risk in Mexico City with 2014–2020 Sentinel-1 IW InSAR

F Cigna, D Tapete - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Among the fastest sinking cities globally, the metropolitan area of Mexico City is the target of
an unprecedented satellite investigation based on over 300 Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture …

Satellite InSAR survey of structurally-controlled land subsidence due to groundwater exploitation in the Aguascalientes Valley, Mexico

F Cigna, D Tapete - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
To address increasing water demands in expanding cities, many aquifers in Mexico are
overexploited and deplete. The resulting land subsidence often combines with ground …

Accuracy of Sentinel-1 PSI and SBAS InSAR displacement velocities against GNSS and geodetic leveling monitoring data

F Cigna, R Esquivel Ramírez, D Tapete - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Correct use of multi-temporal Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) datasets to
complement geodetic surveying for geo-hazard applications requires rigorous assessment …

Sentinel-1 big data processing with P-SBAS InSAR in the geohazards exploitation platform: An experiment on coastal land subsidence and landslides in Italy

F Cigna, D Tapete - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
The growing volume of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery acquired by satellite
constellations creates novel opportunities and opens new challenges for interferometric …

Urban growth and land subsidence: Multi-decadal investigation using human settlement data and satellite InSAR in Morelia, Mexico

F Cigna, D Tapete - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Limited attention is typically paid to the cause-effect relationship between land subsidence
due to aquifers overexploitation in expanding metropolises and urban growth models and …

Coastal zone changes in West Africa: Challenges and opportunities for satellite earth observations

R Almar, T Stieglitz, KA Addo, K Ba, GA Ondoa… - Surveys in …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The West African coastal population and ecosystems are increasingly exposed to a
multitude of hazards. These are likely to be exacerbated by global climate change and direct …

Surface deformation analysis of the Houston area using time series interferometry and emerging hot spot analysis

SD Khan, OCA Gadea, A Tello Alvarado, OA Tirmizi - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cities in the northern Gulf of Mexico, such as Houston, have experienced one of the fastest
rates of subsidence, with groundwater/hydrocarbon withdrawal being considered the …

Exploiting satellite SAR for archaeological prospection and heritage site protection

F Cigna, T Balz, D Tapete, G Caspari, B Fu… - Geo-spatial …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) remote sensing has a long history
of use and reached a good level of maturity in archaeological and cultural heritage …