Vernon Singhroy - Advances in Remote Sensing for Infrastructure Monitoring

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Marco Chini, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Belvaux, Luxembourg

Manfred Ehlers, University of Osnabrueck

Venkat Lakshmi, The University of South Carolina, USA

Norman Mueller, Geoscience Australia, Symonston, Australia

Alberto Refice, CNR-ISSIA, Bari, Italy

Fabio Rocca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Andrew Skidmore, The University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

Krishna Vadrevu, The University of Maryland, College Park, USA

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Infrastructure projects by national, regional, and municipal governments are increasing, and robust monitoring techniques are needed. This is necessary because most civil infrastructure requires frequent repairs and the recent effects of climate change make monitoring even more important. Currently, the national space agencies and some commercial space companies are providing more high-resolution and daily images that are useful for infrastructure characterization and monitoring.

Recent applications on the uses of satellite and airborne images to monitor infrastructure are mainly focused on developing methodologies. This book focuses on modern case studies using high-resolution radar, optical, LIDAR, and UAV images in Canada, Dominica, Guyana, India, Italy, Syria, Taiwan, the USA, and the United Kingdom. The case studies provide operational guidelines and demonstrate how advanced remote sensing techniques are used to monitor civil infrastructure. The book will be of interest to infrastructure consultants and professionals, scientific communities in earth observation and advanced imaging methods, and researchers and professors in earth sciences, climate change, and civil and geoengineering. We also provide a more detailed account on advanced radar interferometry (InSAR), which is a rapidly growing business area for monitoring infrastructure. This book is divided into three parts. Part I focuses on high-resolution, rapid time-series radar interferometry to monitor highways, railways, pipelines, bridges, urban, and water conveyance infrastructures. Part II uses optical images for urban infrastructure characterization. Part III focuses on both radar and optical images to monitor damages to infrastructure.

Chapters provides a case of InSAR monitoring of land subsidence impacting a water conveyance infrastructure.

Urban infrastructure is discussed in Chaps. discuss the use of optical images for spill response to the recycle and repurpose construction materials after destruction.

I would like to thank the 62 authors from 28 agencies for their valuable contribution to this publication. This compilation of selected case studies will provide useful guidelines to the larger community involved in civil infrastructure characterization and monitoring. The examples are clearly globalNorth America, Europe, Middle East, Asia, Island States, and the Tropics.