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Application of the PS-InSAR Technique for the Post-Failure Landslide Deformation Monitoring at Lubietova Site in Central Slovakia

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The interferometric synthetic aperture radar data from ERS and ENVISAT sensors were utilized in the analysis of the post-failure deformations in the area of Lubietova town in Central Slovakia. The catastrophic landslide of 1977 together with surrounding landslides in the Lubietova area were analysed with the help of persistent scatterers (PS) technique in order to evaluate recent and past deformations of the unstable slopes. Although long-term precise geodetic monitoring of the 1977 landslide revealed differential deformations inside the sliding mass, due to the lack of the PS located inside the landside caused by temporal decorrelation, unfortunately these records could not be directly compared. The adjacent landslides with sufficient number of PS were analysed by transformation of the line of sight displacements recorded by the sensors to the slope vector direction. This procedure allowed identification of the precise boundaries of the actively moving landslide parts and the updating of the landslide inventory for the Lubietova area.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by a grant from the Slovak Ministry of Education VEGA (contract no. 1/0331/09) and partly by the EU FP7 project “SAFER” (contract no. 218802) and Grant of the Slovak Research and Development Agency (contract no. DO7RP-0012-09, APVV – 0330–10 and APVV-0641-10).

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  1. Department of Engineering Geology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynska Dolina G, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Vladimir Greif & Jan Vlcko

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  3. Kyoto University Uji-Campus, Uji, Kyoto, Japan

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Greif, V., Vlcko, J. (2013). Application of the PS-InSAR Technique for the Post-Failure Landslide Deformation Monitoring at Lubietova Site in Central Slovakia. In: Margottini, C., Canuti, P., Sassa, K. (eds) Landslide Science and Practice. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31445-2_2

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