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Space-based Deformation Monitoring of Coastal Urban Areas: The Case of Limassol’s Coastal Front

Kyriaki Fotiou
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Dimitris Kakoullis
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Marina Pekri
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George Melillos
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Ramon Brcic
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Michael Eineder
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Diofantos G. Hadjimitsis
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Chris Danezis
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Version 1 : Received: 25 January 2022 / Approved: 27 January 2022 / Online: 27 January 2022 (11:30:23 CET)

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Fotiou, K.; Kakoullis, D.; Pekri, M.; Melillos, G.; Brcic, R.; Eineder, M.; Hadjimitsis, D.G.; Danezis, C. Space-Based Displacement Monitoring of Coastal Urban Areas: The Case of Limassol’s Coastal Front. Remote Sens. 2022, 14, 914. Fotiou, K.; Kakoullis, D.; Pekri, M.; Melillos, G.; Brcic, R.; Eineder, M.; Hadjimitsis, D.G.; Danezis, C. Space-Based Displacement Monitoring of Coastal Urban Areas: The Case of Limassol’s Coastal Front. Remote Sens. 2022, 14, 914.

Abstract

Abstract: In the last five years, the urban development of Limassol City has rapidly increased in the sectors of industry, trade, real estate, and many others. This exponentially increased urban development introduces several concerns about the aggravation of the land subsidence in the Limassol coastal front. Fifty Copernicus Sentinel-1 data from 2017-2021 have been processed and analyzed using the Sentinel Application Platform (SNAP) and the Stanford Method for Persistent Scatters (StaMPS). A case study for the identification and analysis of the elements (PS) in pixels in a series of interferograms, and then, the quantity of the land displacements in the Line of Sight, in the Limassol coastal front, is presented in this research, with the subsidence rates up to about (-5 to 4 mm / year). For the validation of the detected deformation, accurate ground-based geodetic measurements along the coastal area were used. Concordantly, taking into account that there are a significant number of skyscrapers planned to be built, this study attempts a preliminary assessment of the impact these structures will pose on the coastal front of the area of Limassol.

Keywords

Deformation Monitoring; Land Subsidence; Coastal Areas; PSI; SAR; Cyprus

Subject

Environmental and Earth Sciences, Remote Sensing

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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