LANDSLIDE INCIDENCE ANALYSIS BY MEANS OF A-DInSAR OPEN ACCESS SERVICE AND LANDSLIDE DATABASE

Abstract

<p>Landslides are one of the most common and dangerous threats in the world that generate considerable damage and economic losses. The aim of this study is to analyse the suitability of using the ESA G-POD (European Space Agency Grid Processing On Demand) environment to detect landslide incidence.</p><p>This free service allows to gain Mean Deformation Maps (mm/year and cm/year) by means of P-SBAS (Parallel-Small Baseline Subset) method, which is a kind of A-DInSAR (Advanced-Differential SAR Interferometry) technique.</p><p>The study area is in the Northwest of Spain, where there are and have been some significant well-known active landslides. ENVISAT ASAR satellite data collected from 2003 to 2010, have been contrasted with the slope instabilities inventory of Asturias (BAPA: <em>Base de datos de Argayos del Principado de Asturias</em> - Principality of Asturias Landslide Database), from 2003 to 2010. Afterwards, a new check with instability data registered in BAPA dataset from 2010 to 2017 has been done.</p><p>A-DInSAR and BAPA data have been jointly integrated and examined in a GIS. The results obtained indicate that there is consistency between both types of data. In addition, this research has been useful to highlight the G-POD free service as a reliable, economic and adequate tool to analyse movements of terrain during time periods of several years in the North of Spain.</p>