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DInSAR for the Monitoring of Cultural Heritage Sites

Differential SAR Interferometry for the Investigation of Deformations Affecting Cultural Heritage Sites: The Case Study of the Ancient Roman City of Pompeii (Italy)

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Abstract

Detection and monitoring of deformations affecting cultural heritage sites and their surroundings represent a key issue for developing strategies for their preservation, particularly in the case of extended archaeological areas. In this chapter, we first introduce the differential SAR interferometry (DInSAR) techniques that, thanks to their capability of performing noninvasive deformation analyses, provide valuable information about the spatial and the temporal evolution of the detected displacements. Subsequently, we present the DInSAR results achieved over the whole archaeological site of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii (Italy), and focus on some historical buildings where small displacements, involving portions or the whole complex structure, have been detected.

The performed analysis confirms the relevance of the DInSAR techniques for developing sustainable strategies aimed at the preservation of cultural and historical heritage sites.

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Acknowledgments

This work has partially been funded by the Italian Department of Civil Protection (DPC); the manuscript contents reflect authors’ positions that could be different from the DPC official statements. The work has also been supported by the I-AMICA project (PONa3 00363). We thank the European and Italian Space Agency for providing the ERS/ENVISAT and COSMO-SkyMed data, respectively. We also thank the NASA SRTM mission for the DEM of the Napoli Bay area.

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  1. Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis, National Research Council, C.da S. Loja, 85050, Tito Scalo, Potenza, Italy

    Manuela Bonano

  2. Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment, National Research Council, Via Diocleziano 328, 80124, Naples, Italy

    Manuela Bonano, Mariarosaria Manzo, Francesco Casu, Michele Manunta & Riccardo Lanari

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Bonano, M., Manzo, M., Casu, F., Manunta, M., Lanari, R. (2017). DInSAR for the Monitoring of Cultural Heritage Sites. In: Masini, N., Soldovieri, F. (eds) Sensing the Past. Geotechnologies and the Environment, vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50518-3_6

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