We present a general method for retrieving time-series of three component surface velocity field vector given a set of continuous synthetic aperture radar (SAR) acquisitions collected from multiple geometries. Our algorithm extends the single-line-of-sight mathematical framework developed for time-series analysis using interferometric SAR (InSAR) to three spatial dimensions. The inversion is dr...

The use of COSMO-SkyMed data in the SAR interferometric techniques opens up new possibilities both for the monitoring of the surface deformation phenomena and the 3D measurements of the territory thanks to their height resolution. GEOCART engineering company has developed an own software called “SLIDE” [1,2,3] (Sar Land Interferometry Data Exploitation) to process ERS SAR data in order to produ...

Historically, Earth Observation (EO) missions have largely been technology-driven. A promising idea for an instrument design has often been the starting point for a satellite mission specifically conceived to satisfy certain scientific requirements. This situation has led to a high number of scattered facilities each providing different specific, regional, thematic functions such as near real t...

Differential SAR Interferometry and particularly Persistent Scatterers Interferometry (PSI) have allowed monitoring ground deformations over wide regions at very high accuracy and hence have boosted the application of active microwave remote sensing in many areas of environmental risk monitoring. The monitoring of urban areas and infrastructures is of key importance for evident reasons of impac...

Virus-induced gene silencing has been suggested as a powerful and rapid technique for analysis of gene function in plant growth and development (Baulcombe, 1999). Infecting Nicotiana benthamiana with Tobacco Rattle Virus (TRV) containing a fragment of the gene encoding phytoene desaturase, an essential enzyme in carotene synthesis, results in a photo-bleached phenotype in photosynthetic tissues...

With the recent launches of COSMO-Skymed and TerraSAR-X satellites, a growing amount of very-high resolution images will be available. COSMO-SkyMed (COnstellation of small Satellites for the Mediterranean basin Observation) is an Earth observation satellite system funded by the Italian Government and conducted by the Italian Space Agency (ASI). It is made up of four satellites, equipped with X-...

The scope of the SIGRIS pilot project is the development of an infrastructure to provide value-added information services for the seismic risk management, assuring a close integration between ground-based and satellite Earth Observation data. The project is presently in the demonstration phase, and various information products are constantly generated and disseminated to the main user, the Ital...

We combine both amplitude and texture statistics of the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images for classification purpose. We use Nakagami density to model the class amplitudes and a non-Gaussian Markov Random Field (MRF) texture model with t-distributed regression error to model the textures of the classes. A non-stationary Multinomial Logistic (MnL) latent class label model is used as a mixtur...