Improved characterization of slow-moving landslides by means of adaptive NL-InSAR filtering

David Albiol; Rubén Iglesias; Francisco Sánchez; Javier Duro

doi:10.1117/12.2067357

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21 October 2014 Improved characterization of slow-moving landslides by means of adaptive NL-InSAR filtering

David Albiol, Rubén Iglesias, Francisco Sánchez, Javier Duro

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Proceedings Volume 9243, SAR Image Analysis, Modeling, and Techniques XIV; 924308 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2067357
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2014, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

Advanced remote sensing techniques based on space-borne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) have been developed during the last decade showing their applicability for the monitoring of surface displacements in landslide areas. This paper presents an advanced Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI) processing based on the Stable Point Network (SPN) technique, developed by the company Altamira-Information, for the monitoring of an active slowmoving landslide in the mountainous environment of El Portalet, Central Spanish Pyrenees. For this purpose, two TerraSAR-X data sets acquired in ascending mode corresponding to the period from April to November 2011, and from August to November 2013, respectively, are employed. The objective of this work is twofold. On the one hand, the benefits of employing Nonlocal Interferomtric SAR (NL-InSAR) adaptive filtering techniques over vegetated scenarios to maximize the chances of detecting natural distributed scatterers, such as bare or rocky areas, and deterministic point-like scatterers, such as man-made structures or poles, is put forward. In this context, the final PSI displacement maps retrieved with the proposed filtering technique are compared in terms of pixels' density and quality with classical PSI, showing a significant improvement. On the other hand, since SAR systems are only sensitive to detect displacements in the line-of-sight (LOS) direction, the importance of projecting the PSI displacement results retrieved along the steepest gradient of the terrain slope is discussed. The improvements presented in this paper are particularly interesting in these type of applications since they clearly allow to better determine the extension and dynamics of complex landslide phenomena.

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David Albiol, Rubén Iglesias, Francisco Sánchez, and Javier Duro "Improved characterization of slow-moving landslides by means of adaptive NL-InSAR filtering", Proc. SPIE 9243, SAR Image Analysis, Modeling, and Techniques XIV, 924308 (21 October 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2067357

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