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Monitoring Deformations of Istanbul Metro Line Stations Through Sentinel-1 and Levelling Observations

Published: May 10, 2021

Catapult Co-Author: Cristian Rossi Abstract: Turkey, as a developing country, is designing and performing massive construction projects around Istanbul. Beginning from the 1960s, rapid urbanization has...

Space Applications
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Geospatial Innovation in 2020

Published: February 8, 2021

A report in collaboration with Springwise Prior to the major advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies that are now integrated with Geospatial...

Sustainable Earth
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Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) in the Context of Bridge Monitoring

Published: January 18, 2021

Catapult Co-Author: Cristian Rossi Abstract: The structural health of critical transport infrastructure, such as bridges, is difficult to assess and monitor. Existing methods of evaluation rely...

Sustainable Earth
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Early warning system for the detection of unexpected bridge displacements from radar satellite data

Published: November 4, 2020

Catapult Co-Author: Cristian Rossi Abstract: Several hundred satellites are monitoring our planet every day, some of which are able to measure subtle ground movement. Satellites that...

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Combined InSAR and Terrestrial Structural Monitoring of Bridges

Published: April 8, 2020

Catapult Co-Author: Cristian Rossi Abstract: This article examines advances in interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) satellite measurement technologies to understand their relevance, utilization, and limitations...

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LoGSRN: Deep Super Resolution Network for Digital Elevation Model

Published: March 26, 2020

Catapult co-author: Stephen Spittle Abstract: The spatial resolution of a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) plays a crucial role in many practical remote sensing applications. However,...

Space Applications
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Global Market Matrix Report

Published: October 12, 2019

The Satellite Applications Catapult commissioned Bryce Space and Technology Limited to undertake a study to create an annual snapshot of the opportunities for satellite applications,...

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Waterloo Bridge Monitoring: Comparing Measurements from Earth and Space

Published: October 10, 2019

Catapult co-author: Cristian Rossi Satellite radar imagery is becoming more accessible, and at improving spatial and time resolutions. Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) has the...

Towards Sentinel-1 SAR Analysis-Ready Data: A Best Practices Assessment on Preparing Backscatter Data for the Cube

Published: October 3, 2019

Catapult co-authors: T Freemantle, C Williams, T Jones, C Rossi, A Syriou This study aims at assessing the feasibility of automatically producing analysis-ready radiometrically terrain-corrected...

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A comparative review on the state and advancement of Site-Specific Crop Management in the UK and China

Published: January 4, 2019

Catapult co-author: Dan Wicks Precision agriculture, and more specifically Site-Specific Crop Management (SSCM), has been implemented in some form across nearly all agricultural production systems...

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