Advances in Remote Sensing for Infrastructure Monitoring

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Transportation, Energy and Mining Infrastructure

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Advanced Radar Images for Monitoring Transportation, Energy, Mining and Coastal Infrastructure

      • Vernon Singhroy, Mary-Anne Fobert, Junhua Li, Andrée Blais-Stevens, François Charbonneau, M. Das

      Pages 3-40

   3. InSAR Satellite Surveys: Key Considerations for Monitoring Infrastructure

      • Jon Leighton, Parwant Ghuman, Christian E. Haselwimmer

      Pages 41-62

   4. Sentinel-1 InSAR Data for the Continuous Monitoring of Ground Deformation and Infrastructures at Regional Scale

      • Nicola Casagli, Silvia Bianchini, Andrea Ciampalini, Matteo Del Soldato, Pablo Ezquierro, Roberto Montalti et al.

      Pages 63-80

   5. Protecting Canada’s Railway Network Using Remote Sensing Technologies

      • David Huntley, Peter Bobrowsky, Drew Rotheram-Clarke, Roger MacLeod, Robert Cocking, Jamel Joseph et al.

      Pages 81-109

   6. Landslide Activity Assessment of a Subtropical Area by Integrating InSAR, Landslide Inventory, Airborne LiDAR, and UAV Investigations: A Case Study in Northern Taiwan

      • Ching-Fang Lee, Vernon Singhroy, Shih-Yuan Lin, Wei-Kai Huang, Junhua Li

      Pages 111-136

   7. Remote Sensing of Deformation and Disturbance to Monitor and Assess Infrastructure in Urban Environments

      • Andrea Donnellan

      Pages 137-157

   8. Remote Monitoring of Highway Bridges with RADARSAT-2 Satellite: Validation Case Study on Jacques Cartier and Victoria Bridges in Montreal, Canada

      • Daniel Cusson, Istemi Ozkan, Fernando Greene Gondi, Jayson Eppler

      Pages 159-182

   9. Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) in the Context of Bridge Monitoring

      • S. Selvakumaran, C. Rossi, E. Barton, C. R. Middleton

      Pages 183-209

   10. Measuring Subsidence in California and Its Impact on Water Conveyance Infrastructure

       • Cathleen E. Jones, Tom G. Farr, Zhen Liu, Megan M. Miller

       Pages 211-226

3. Urban Infrastructure

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227

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   2. Earth Observation Based Understanding of Canadian Urban Form

      • Ying Zhang

      Pages 229-258

   3. Extraction of Building Footprints from LiDAR: An Assessment of Classification and Point Density Requirements

      • Jean-Samuel Proulx-Bourque, Heather McGrath, Denis Bergeron, Charles Fortin

      Pages 259-271

4. Infrastructure Damage

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 273-273

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   2. Flood Mapping from Multi-Sensor EO Data for Near Real-Time Infrastructure Impact Assessment: Lessons Learned from the 2017 Spring Flood in Eastern Canada

      • Ian Olthof, Simon Tolszczuk-Leclerc, Brad Lehrbass, Victor Neufeld, Vincent Decker

      Pages 275-289

   3. The Role of Landsat-8 Multispectral Data in Spill Response: Three Case Studies

      • Subir Chowdhury, Catherine Evans, Todd C. Shipman

      Pages 291-305

   4. Using EO to Understand the Significance of Cement Production Infrastructure in the Syrian Conflict

      • Mark H. Bulmer

      Pages 307-354

5. Back Matter

   Pages 355-362

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This volume provides international case studies of practical and advanced methods using satellite images integrated with other airborne, drone images and field data to monitor infrastructure. The book is timely, as infrastructure spending by national governments is increasing and robust monitoring techniques are needed to keep pace with climate change impacts affecting infrastructures globally. The expert international contributions that comprise the book provide examples of advanced methods using InSAR, high-resolution optical and radar images, LIDAR, UAV, geophysical techniques and their applications to civil infrastructure. The case studies focus on high-resolution, rapid time-series radar interferometry to monitor highways, railways, pipelines, bridges, urban, and water conveyance infrastructures.  Other case studies use optical and radar images to characterize urban infrastructure and monitor damages from floods, oil spills and conflicts. The case studies are global focusing on infrastructure projects in Canada, Dominica Guyana, India Italy, Syria Taiwan, United States and the United Kingdom. This compilation of selected case studies will provide useful guidelines for the civil infrastructure characterization and monitoring communities. The book will be of interest to infrastructure consultants and professionals, scientific communities in earth observation and advanced imaging methods, and researchers and professors in earth sciences, climate change, and civil and geoengineering.

• Urban infrastructure
• Geospatial remote sensing
• Energy corridors
• Geomatics
• Transportation monitoring
• Geological mining
• InSAR
• LIDAR
• remote sensing/photogrammetry

• President, EOSPATIAL, Ottawa, Canada

  Vernon Singhroy

Dr Vernon Singhroy is the President of EOSPATIAL in Ottawa, Canada. He is an internationally recognized expert on remote sensing applications, and was the chief scientist of the Canadian Space Agency, RADARSAT Constellation Mission, launched in June 2019. Dr. Singhroy received his Ph.D. in environmental and resource engineering from the State University of New York, Syracuse. He is a professional engineer. A senior research scientist with the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing at Natural Resources Canada (1995-2020), Dr. Singhroy has published over 300 papers in scientific journals, proceedings, and books. He was the editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, and he is the co-editor of four books, including of the Encyclopedia of Remote Sensing. Dr. Singhroy has been a Professor of Earth Observation at the International Space University in Strasbourg, France (1998-2020) and he is an adjunct professor in Planetary and Space Sciences at the University of New Brunswick in Canada. Dr. Singhroy received the prestigious Gold Medal Award from the Canadian Remote Sensing Society and the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal for his contributions to Canadian and international remote sensing applications and education.

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