Vol. 14, No. 1, 25-36, 2015

Monitoring municipal solid waste small magnitude landfill settlement with DInSAR
Pietro Milillo, Eric J. Fielding, Salvatore Masi, Paul Lundgren, and Carmine Serio

Abstract
Municipal solid waste landfill has been suffering from well-documented, post-closure settlement over a long period of time. Settlement may lead to various undesirable phenomena such as cracks, failure of the cover system and surface ponding contamination surrounding areas and the aquifer. In this paper we highlight how differential synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Interferometry (DInSAR) is capable of monitoring landfill settlements on different spatial and temporal scales. We focus our attention on the Montegrosso-Pallareta landfill (Potenza, Italy) using COSMO-SkyMed interferometric data. Results are compared with a solid waste landfill settlement model, showing good agreement between measurements and expected deformation.

View Full Text (pdf file, 4.5 MB) previous page
DOI: 10.12760/01-2015-1-03

History
Submitted: 27 Oct 2014
Revised: 01 May 2015
Accepted: 13 May 2015
Published:02 June 2015
Responsible editor: Bogdan Zagajewski

Citation
Milillo P, E J Fielding, S Masi, P Lundgren & C Serio, 2015. Monitoring municipal solid waste small magnitude landfill settlement with DInSAR. EARSeL eProceedings, 14(1): 25-36
EARSeL-logo

EARSeL European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories, Strasbourg, France

   
BIS-logo

BIS-Verlag
BIS Library and Information System, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

   
Scopus-logo

Indexed in Scopus

   
DOAJ logo

DOAJ
Directory of Open Access Journals

   
SPERPA/RoMEO logo

SHERPA/RoMEO
Opening access to research

   
JournalGuide logo

JournalGuide
Find the best journal for your research

Creative Commons License

ISSN 1729-3782