Performance of TerraSAR-X for urban subsidence monitoring: Murcia case study

Monells Miralles, Daniel
Centolanza, Giuseppe
Mallorquí Franquet, Jordi J.
Duque Biarge, Sergi
Tomás, Roberto
Lopez-Sanchez, Juan M.
Vicente-Guijalba, Fernando
Herrera García, Gerardo
Mulas de la Peña, Joaquín

Publication date

January 2010

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of the performance of TerraSAR-X for subsidence monitoring in urban areas. The city of Murcia has been selected as a test-site due to its high deformation rate and the set of extensometers deployed along the city that provide validation data. The obtained results have been compared with those obtained from ERS/ENVISAT data belonging to the same period and validated with the in-situ measurements.This work has been supported by the Spanish MICINN and European Union FEDER funds under project TEC2008-06764-C02. The TerraSAR-X images were provided by DLR in the framework of the scientific project GEO0389. ERS and ENVISAT data were provided by ESA in the framework of the CAT11 project 2494