Intermittent small baseline subset (ISBAS) InSAR analysis to monitor landslides in Costa Della Gaveta, Southern Italy

This work presents a Differential SAR Interferometry (DInSAR) analysis of slow-moving landslides in Costa della Gaveta (southern Italy) exploiting the improved spatial density of radar targets provided by the novel Intermittent SBAS (ISBAS) algorithm. Several landslides occurred in this area over the past decade, producing a ground displacement of several centimeters and causing unsafe road and rail traffic conditions. In the 2.4 km² study area, ISBAS analysis of TerraSAR-X data acquired in 2010-2011 has shown the presence of sixteen phenomena with a southeastern main direction of motion. The DInSAR results agree with both the magnitude and the deformation mechanisms that were mapped during field observations and reported in the geotechnical literature.