Periodically monitoring landslides is a key factor for supporting the realisation of hazard warning systems and risk reduction in the corresponding neighbourhood areas. Although satellite remote sensing solutions can be considered for low spatial resolution monitoring, this approach is still inappropriate for high spatial resolution investigations. Ground-based Radar Interferometry is also a widely used technique that allows for working at a proper spatial resolution, but it can often be an overbudget solution for most applications. Instead, photogrammetric surveys based on Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) imagery appear as a very interesting approach in terms of both spatial resolution and flexibility in temporally repeating the survey. Motivated by this observation, this work investigates the use of multi-temporal UAS surveys for landslide monitoring. To be more precise, Digital Image Correlation (DIC) has been applied to orthomosaics generated from different UAS photogrammetry surveys to compute the area’s deformation map. Compared with a reference GNSS survey, the results obtained using NHAZCA IRIS software and an in-house DIC approach show a deformation estimation accuracy of approximately 0.1 m, a reasonable accuracy for landslides moving at moderate velocity.

High-resolution monitoring of landslides with UAS photogrammetry and digital image correlation / Francesco Mugnai; Andrea Masiero; Riccardo Angelini; Irene Cortesi;. - In: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING. - ISSN 2279-7254. - ELETTRONICO. - 56:(2023), pp. 1-13. [10.1080/22797254.2023.2216361]

High-resolution monitoring of landslides with UAS photogrammetry and digital image correlation

Francesco Mugnai;Andrea Masiero;Riccardo Angelini;Irene Cortesi
2023

Abstract

Periodically monitoring landslides is a key factor for supporting the realisation of hazard warning systems and risk reduction in the corresponding neighbourhood areas. Although satellite remote sensing solutions can be considered for low spatial resolution monitoring, this approach is still inappropriate for high spatial resolution investigations. Ground-based Radar Interferometry is also a widely used technique that allows for working at a proper spatial resolution, but it can often be an overbudget solution for most applications. Instead, photogrammetric surveys based on Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) imagery appear as a very interesting approach in terms of both spatial resolution and flexibility in temporally repeating the survey. Motivated by this observation, this work investigates the use of multi-temporal UAS surveys for landslide monitoring. To be more precise, Digital Image Correlation (DIC) has been applied to orthomosaics generated from different UAS photogrammetry surveys to compute the area’s deformation map. Compared with a reference GNSS survey, the results obtained using NHAZCA IRIS software and an in-house DIC approach show a deformation estimation accuracy of approximately 0.1 m, a reasonable accuracy for landslides moving at moderate velocity.
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