Journal
NATURAL HAZARDS AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES
Volume 13, Issue 10, Pages 2425-2440Publisher
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-13-2425-2013
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- Terrafirma Extension project
- Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) Service Element Programme
- ESA
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The potential of repeat-pass space borne SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) interferometry has been exploited to investigate spatial patterns of land subsidence in the Anthemountas basin, in the northern part of Greece. The PSI (Persistent Scatterer Interferometry) approach, based on the processing of long series of SAR acquisitions, has been applied to forty-two images acquired in 1995-2001 by ERS1/2 satellites. Interferometric results have been analysed at a basin scale as support for land motion mapping and at a local scale for the characterisation of ground motion events affecting the village of Perea in the Thermaikos municipality and the Macedonia international airport. PSI results revealed a moderate subsidence phenomenon along the wider coastal zone of Anthemountas basin corresponding to intense groundwater extraction. Highest values, exceeding -20 mm yr(-1), were measured in the airport area where the thickest sequence of compressible Quaternary sediments occurs. Intense subsidence has been detected also in the Perea village (maximum deformation of -10 to -15 mm yr(-1)), where a series of fractures, causing damages to both buildings and infrastructure, occurred in 2005-2006.
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