The paper evaluates new Staring Spotlight mode capabilities to monitor the mining activities impacts on the environment to ensure an effective management and to prevent possible natural and technological hazards. The societal and environmental impacts are huge such as: the topographic alteration, changes in the soil structure and vegetation coverage, influence on the underground water resources and on the rain water draining regime and air pollution. Rosia Jiu opencast test site is affected by subsidence phenomena caused by the closing of the hollows remained from the underground exploitation of lignite and by altering of the hidro-geological conditions, due to the applying of a forced and high intensity dewatering of the aquifer system within the area. A methodology based on deformation maps is designed for monitoring of the elastic deformation, early warning stage and detection of the risk occurrence. Intense mining activities from the summer -autumn seasons implied as interferometric pairs to have very low coherence making almost impossible to find PS candidates.