FRINGE Workshop: space radar advances and applications


Envisat WSM/IM InSAR image of Bam
 
This interferogram shows ground motion associated with the 26 December 2003 earthquake at Bam in Iran. The interferogram was created by combining an Envisat Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) Wide Swath Mode (WSM) image with an Image Mode (IM) image. Typically IM is the sole ASAR mode exploited for interferography; making use of WSM in this way has the potential to broaden Envisat's InSAR coverage in future. Processed by Politecnico of Milano.


 


Monitoring ice sheets
 

 
The velocity flow field of an outlet of Vatnajökull, Iceland, in December 1995 (left) and March 1996 (right) during the beginning of a jökulhlaup (glacier outburst)


 
Composite image of Greenland derived from ERS1-2 Envisat and Radarsat 1 SARs. Study of glacier velocity over the Greenland ice sheet has shown significant acceleration of outlet glaciers during the last few years, doubling Greenland's contribution to sea level rise from 1999 to 2005, according to Eric Rignot of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA.


 
The Milan stadium of San Siro imaged by SAR at 10:30 in the morning every 35 days. The sunny isde and that in shade undergo different thermal dilations than can be measured from the satellite yielding posible indications about the structural stability of the building.
Seasonal motions of the San Siro Stadium in Milano (right); colours indicate position and motion of the imaged permanent scatterers. Motion of the side in shade (top left) and of the sunny side (bottom left).


 
Result of a PS interferogram analysis of the city of Marseilles overlayed on an optical image. The blue points and the inserted plot indicate an uplift of the commercial centre. This investigation is part of the PSIC4 study (Persistent Scatterer Interferometry Code Cross-Comparison and Certification), a comparison of PSI algorithms initiated at the FRINGE 2003 Workshop.



Release date: 21 February 2006