Satellite Radar Interferometry: New Technologies for Satellite Monitoring of Mining Areas and Displacements of Natural and Man-Made Objects

Abstract

The paper presents the results of application of satellite radar interferometry for solving a wide range of problems associated with deformations of the Earth’s surface. Displacements of the Earth’s surface at the Romashkinskoe oil deposit are estimated using the technique for reconstructing three components of the displacement vector developed at the Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences; landslide activity above a section of the North Caucasus Railway tunnel near the village Mamaika (Bolshoi Sochi) is investigated, application of persistent scatterer techniques for estimating displacement fields in the territory of Moscow is tested, and coseismic and postseismic displacements in the area of the Altai Earthquake of September 27, 2003, are analyzed. The latest technologies make it possible to ensure that the obtained results correspond to the latest world standards and are competitive with the results obtained by foreign commercial companies for the territory of the Russian Federation and CIS countries.