Monitoring open-pit quarries by interferometric radar for safety purposes

Abstract

A novel Ground Based Synthetic Aperture Interferometric radar was set up for slope stability monitoring in open pit quarries. It is a wide view angle system which is easily adapted to the typical geometry of a quarry, and it automatically generates interferometric DEMs of the area under investigation. The system was tested during a 40 days field survey in a stone quarry in Tuscany, Italy.