Volume Loss Assessment with MT-InSAR during Tunnel Construction in the City of Naples (Italy)

Autor: Gianluigi Della Ragione, Alfredo Rocca, Daniele Perissin, Emilio Bilotta
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Remote Sensing, Vol 15, Iss 10, p 2555 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2072-4292
DOI: 10.3390/rs15102555
Popis: The construction of tunnels in urban areas can affect the nearby existing infrastructures and buildings, as shallow excavations induce movements up to the ground surface. An important parameter to be monitored during the excavation is the volume loss, which plays a crucial role in determining the ground movements at the surface. InSAR satellite monitoring has the potential to detect ground movements at the millimetric scale on a vast area for tunneling applications. In the present study, the Multi-Temporal InSAR (MT-InSAR) technique, based on the persistent scattering method, is used to retrieve vertical displacements induced by the excavation of twin tunnels of a metro line in the City of Naples (Italy). Here, the volume loss is obtained by fitting a Gaussian curve on the monitored settlement data induced by the excavation of the first tunnel. The latter is then used to predict the settlement of the second excavation about one year later and compared to the MT-InSAR data. These monitored data show the typical shape of the settlement profile, confirming the empirical Gaussian distribution and MT-InSAR capability to detect millimetric displacements. Therefore, MT-InSAR can be used to feed algorithms to improve the prediction of tunneling-induced displacements.
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