Long term peatland subsidence monitoring by using the ISBAS InSAR technique: validation over Bad a Cheo forest, North East Scotland

Authors:
Lubna Alshammari, Doreen Boyd, Andrew Sowter, Russell Anderson, David Large, Stuart Marsh

Book:
Responsible Management of Peatlands

Venue:
Aberdeen

Keywords:
peat-mass-accumulation-and-loss, scotland, subsistence-monitoring

Documentfile:
abd17pdf.sowter-andrew.pdf

Summary:

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data from the ESA Sentinel 1 constellation has potential as a cost effective and practical method of measuring ground motion in remote peatland. However, current techniques such as Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI) are…