Preparation of a national Copernicus service for detection and monitoring of land subsidence and mass movements in the context of remote sensing assisted hazard mitigation

Review of satellite radar interferometry for subsidence analysis

“…Certainly, this progressive growth can be largely related to the launch in April 2014 of the first satellite of the Sentinel-1 mission, which opened new possibilities for InSAR applications, thanks to the policy on data acquisition and availability (Showstack, 2014). The potential of the Sentinel-1 mission was already evident during its operation ramp-up phase, especially for its wide-area capability (Kalia et al, 2014). The first work based on the use of Sentinel-1 data was published in 2015 by Crosetto et al (2015), who presented ground deformation maps and displacement time series obtained by applying a PSI method to a set of 10 Sentinel-1 images to map subsidence over the metropolitan area of the Federal District of Mexico City.…”