Transport Infrastructure Monitoring Based on Remote Sensing
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 July 2023) | Viewed by 6694
Special Issue Editors
Interests: landslide; remote sensing; monitoring; DInSAR; vulnerability; risk assessment
Interests: Landslides, hazard and risk assessment; interferometry SAR; GIS
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Dear Colleagues,
The transport infrastructure network (roads, highways, and railways) represents a connection system of noteworthy importance for the social and economic life of any nation and plays a significant role in the success of its economy.
The occurrence of geological events such as landslides, for instance, is one of the main causes of damage along linear infrastructures. Damage to transport infrastructures, such as roads, bridges, and railways, can inhibit their optimal functioning and contribute to traffic accidents.
Frequent and accurate monitoring of slope instability phenomena and their interaction with existing infrastructures plays a fundamental role in risk prevention and mitigation activities.
The monitoring and control demands technicians and the procedures of traditional maintenance teams, who detect, through visual inspection, anomalies and failures that could represent a critical condition for users. This approach, in addition to representing a significant portion of the owner's annual budget, may not be effective due to the long time lag between onsite data collection and the transfer of information to the operations center.
Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) is an alternative technique to obtain measurements of surface displacement, providing better spatial resolution and comparable accuracy at an extremely lower cost per area than conventional surveying methods. InSAR is becoming increasingly popular in monitoring urban and infrastructure deformations, even if the technique requires advanced tools and a high level of competence to be successfully applied.
Satellite monitoring systems, based on the use of radar images, can offer a valuable source of independent information products to support infrastructure health assessments. Compared with traditional detection techniques, they allow obtaining a high density of measurement points over large areas for a much lower cost per area. Furthermore, thanks to the evolution of processing techniques (PSInSAR, SqueeSAR), displacement time series can be analyzed with very high accuracy.
This Special Issue aims to illustrate and discuss different uses of the interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) technique in transportation infrastructure planning and monitoring. Topics may cover anything from the project analysis to monitoring during its life and in planning surveillance and maintenance programs.
Hence, multisource data integration and comparison (traditional data such as topography, GPS, inclinometer measurements, and InSAR time series), monitoring and surveillance infrastructures systems, innovative approaches or studies focused on SAR data applications to transport infrastructures monitoring, among other issues, are welcome. Articles may address, but are not limited, to the following topics:
- structural health monitoring
- vulnerability assessment
- hazard assessment
- risk awareness
- geotechnical monitoring
- transportation
- interferometric SAR
- natural hazards
- remote sensing
Prof. Dr. Massimo Ramondini
Prof. Dr. Diego Di Martire
Dr. Donato Infante
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- structural health monitoring
- vulnerability
- InSAR
- natural hazards
- monitoring
- land management
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