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| Titel |
Soil erosion and its impact on surface deformation studied in Nozhian, Iran: new insight from the analysis of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data |
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Mahdi Motagh, Mahmud Haghshenas-Haghighi, Somayeh Ebrahimzadeh |
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EGU General Assembly 2014
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Artikel
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Englisch
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| Digitales Dokument |
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In: GRA - Volume 16 (2014) |
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250093987
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2014-9246.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Soil erosion is one of the most serious environmental problems causing large damages and costs all over the world. Obtaining precise volumetric information for the amount of soil loss and/or deposition and sedimentation is a key parameter in modelling soil erosion processes. The use of SAR remote sensing observations for monitoring of rapidly eroded regions could be problematic due to phase decorrelation. In this study, we attempt to use observations from C-band and L-band SAR imagery to assess the impact of soil erosion on surface deformation in Nozhian region, central Iran. Nozhian is known as one of the most extreme cases of soil erosion in Iran due to the combination of relatively high intensity rainfall, steep topography and landslides. We use Envisat and ALOS data to evaluate the potential of SAR imagery for detecting areas of erosion and for estimating its volume at a regional scale. The InSAR results are compared with field data acquired in several gabions in the region for validation. |
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