Editorial for the Special Issue “Urban Deformation Monitoring using Persistent Scatterer Interferometry and SAR Tomography”

• Main Authors: Alessandra Budillon, Michele Crosetto, Oriol Monserrat
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2019-05-01
• Series: Remote Sensing
• Subjects: synthetic aperture radar; persistent scatterers; tomography; differential interferometry; polarimetry; radar detection; urban areas; deformation
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/11/1306
• ISSN: 2072-4292

This Special Issue hosts papers related to deformation monitoring in urban areas based on two main techniques: Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI) and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Tomography (TomoSAR). Several contributions highlight the capabilities of Interferometric SAR (InSAR) and PSI techniques for urban deformation monitoring. In this Special Issue, a wide range of InSAR and PSI applications are addressed. Some contributions show the advantages of TomoSAR in un-mixing multiple scatterers for urban mapping and monitoring. This issue includes a contribution that compares PSI and TomoSAR and another one that uses polarimetric data for TomoSAR.