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Use of an Advanced SAR Monitoring Technique to Monitor Old Embankment Dams

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Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 6

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The work mainly discusses the use of the Ground-Based Synthetic Aperture Radar (GBSAR) interferometry technique to observe and control the behavior of earthfill or rockfill embankments for dam impoundments. This non-invasive technique provides overall displacements patterns measured with a sub-millimeter accuracy. The need of reliable monitoring of old embankment dams is rapidly increasing since a large number of these structures are still equipped with old monitoring devices, usually installed some decades ago, which can give only information on localized areas of the embankment. A case study regarding the monitoring of an earthfill dam embankment in Southern Italy by means of GBSAR interferometry is presented.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Ricerca per la Protezione Idrogeologica, Via Amendola 122/I, 70126, Bari, Italy

    Giovanni Nico & Piernicola Lollino

  2. DIAN srl, Z.I. La Martella, III Trav. G.B. Pirelli sn, 75100, Matera, Italy

    Andrea Di Pasquale

  3. D.I.C.E.A, Università la Sapienza, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184, Bari, Italy

    Marco Corsetti

  4. Consorzio di Bonifica della Capitanata, Corso Roma 2, 71121, Foggia, Italy

    Giuseppe Di Nunzio & Alfredo Pitullo

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  1. Giovanni Nico
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Correspondence to Giovanni Nico .

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Inst. for Geo-hydrological Protection, National Research Council (CNR), Turin, Italy

    Giorgio Lollino

  2. Inst. for Geo-hydrological Protection, National Research Council (CNR), Turin, Italy

    Daniele Giordan

  3. Department of Engineering Geology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Kurosch Thuro

  4. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota, USA

    Carlos Carranza-Torres

  5. Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Faquan Wu

  6. Geotechnical Engineering Department, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Paul Marinos

  7. Escuela Universitaria de Ingeniería Técnica de Obras Públicas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Carlos Delgado

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Nico, G., Di Pasquale, A., Corsetti, M., Di Nunzio, G., Pitullo, A., Lollino, P. (2015). Use of an Advanced SAR Monitoring Technique to Monitor Old Embankment Dams. In: Lollino, G., et al. Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09060-3_131

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