Deformation Monitoring Using Persistent Scatterer Interferometry and Sentinel-1 Data in Urban Areas

In this paper, an approach to Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI) is used to derive deformation measurements over the Catalonia region (Northern Spain). A set of tools to control the quality of the 2+1d phase unwrapping, one of the key steps of the proposed procedure, are described and applied over a set of Sentinel-1A (S-1A) images. The results, derived using 64 S1-A images comprising the period from March 2015 to May 2017, are analyzed in the last section of the paper. Finally, the deformation velocity map and the time series are described, in particular over the urban areas, where the proposed approach yields the best results.