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List of works by Francesca Cigna

25 years of satellite InSAR monitoring of ground instability and coastal geohazards in the archaeological site of Capo Colonna, Italy

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A Semi-Automated Object-Based Approach for Landslide Detection Validated by Persistent Scatterer Interferometry Measures and Landslide Inventories

A User-Oriented Methodology for DInSAR Time Series Analysis and Interpretation: Landslides and Subsidence Case Studies

Advanced radar-interpretation of InSAR time series for mapping and characterization of geological processes

Amplitude Change Detection with ENVISAT ASAR to Image the Cultural Landscape of the Nasca Region, Peru

article by Francesca Cigna et al published April 2013 in Archaeological Prospection

Appraisal of Opportunities and Perspectives for the Systematic Condition Assessment of Heritage Sites with Copernicus Sentinel-2 High-Resolution Multispectral Imagery

scholarly article by Deodato Tapete & Francesca Cigna published 5 April 2018 in Remote Sensing

Assessing the Feasibility of a National InSAR Ground Deformation Map of Great Britain with Sentinel-1

article by Alessandro Novellino et al published 30 March 2017 in Geosciences

Biomass retrieval based on genetic algorithm feature selection and support vector regression in Alpine grassland using ground-based hyperspectral and Sentinel-1 SAR data

Characterisation of hydraulic head changes and aquifer properties in the London Basin using Persistent Scatterer Interferometry ground motion data

Deformation analysis of a metropolis from C- to X-band PSI: Proof-of-concept with COSMO-SkyMed over Rome, Italy

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Detecting and monitoring landslide phenomena with TerraSAR-X persistent scatterers data: The Gimigliano case study in Calabria Region (Italy)

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Detecting subsidence-induced faulting in Mexican urban areas by means of Persistent Scatterer Interferometry and subsidence horizontal gradient mapping

Exploitation of Satellite A-DInSAR Time Series for Detection, Characterization and Modelling of Land Subsidence

scientific article published in 2017

Exploitation of the Intermittent SBAS (ISBAS) algorithm with COSMO-SkyMed data for landslide inventory mapping in north-western Sicily, Italy

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Exploiting satellite SAR for archaeological prospection and heritage site protection

scientific article published on 25 July 2023

Geohazards affecting UNESCO WHL sites in the UK observed from geological data and satellite InSAR

Geological hazards in the UNESCO World Heritage sites of the UK: From the global to the local scale perspective

scholarly article by Francesca Cigna et al published January 2018 in Earth-Science Reviews

Getting ready for the generation of a nationwide ground motion product for great Britain using SAR data stacks: Feasibility, data volumes and perspectives

Ground Motion in Areas of Abandoned Mining: Application of the Intermittent SBAS (ISBAS) to the Northumberland and Durham Coalfield, UK

scientific article published in 2017

Ground instability in the old town of Agrigento (Italy) depicted by on-site investigations and Persistent Scatterers data

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How to assess landslide activity and intensity with Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI): the PSI-based matrix approach

article by Francesca Cigna et al published 18 May 2012 in Landslides

Identification of Precursors in InSAR Time Series Using Functional Data Analysis Post-Processing: Demonstration on Mud Volcano Eruptions

scientific article published on 28 March 2024

Identifying natural and anthropogenically-induced geohazards from satellite ground motion and geospatial data: Stoke-on-Trent, UK

Imaging Floods and Glacier Geohazards with Remote Sensing

scientific article published in 2020

Improving Landslide Inventory with Persistent Scatterers in Calabria, Italy

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InSAR data for geohazard assessment in UNESCO World Heritage sites: state-of-the-art and perspectives in the Copernicus era

scholarly article by Deodato Tapete & Francesca Cigna published December 2017 in International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Insar time-series analysis for management and mitigation of geological risk in urban area

Instability mechanisms affecting cultural heritage sites in the Maltese Archipelago

scholarly article by G. Gigli et al published 14 June 2012 in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Integrated geomorphological mapping in the north-western sector of Agrigento (Italy)

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Intermittent SBAS (ISBAS) InSAR with COSMO-SkyMed X-band high resolution SAR data for landslide inventory mapping in Piana degli Albanesi (Italy)

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Intermittent Small Baseline Subset (ISBAS) monitoring of land covers unfavourable for conventional C-band InSAR: proof-of-concept for peatland environments in North Wales, UK

Intermittent small baseline subset (ISBAS) InSAR analysis to monitor landslides in Costa Della Gaveta, Southern Italy

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Investigating Natural Hazards in the Peruvian Region of Nasca with Space-Borne Radar Sensors

Landslide HotSpot Mapping by means of Persistent Scatterer Interferometry

Landslide Impacts on Agrigento’s Cathedral Imaged with Radar Interferometry

Landslide databases in the Geological Surveys of Europe

Landslide mapping and monitoring by using radar and optical remote sensing: Examples from the EC-FP7 project SAFER

Mapping Ground Instability in Areas of Geotechnical Infrastructure Using Satellite InSAR and Small UAV Surveying: A Case Study in Northern Ireland

scientific article published in 2017

Methodology for locale-scale monitoring for the PROTHEGO project: the Choirokoitia case study

Mexico City land subsidence in 2014–2015 with Sentinel-1 IW TOPS: Results using the Intermittent SBAS (ISBAS) technique

Monitoring land subsidence and its induced geological hazard with Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry: A case study in Morelia, Mexico

scientific article published in 2012

Multi-scale Detection of Changing Cultural Landscapes in Nasca (Peru) Through ENVISAT ASAR and TerraSAR-X

Multi-temporal mapping of land subsidence at basin scale exploiting Persistent Scatterer Interferometry: case study of Gioia Tauro plain (Italy)

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Natural and Anthropogenic Geohazards in Greater London Observed from Geological and ERS-1/2 and ENVISAT Persistent Scatterers Ground Motion Data: Results from the EC FP7-SPACE PanGeo Project

scholarly article by Francesca Cigna et al published 20 September 2014 in Pure and Applied Geophysics

Observing Geohazards from Space

scientific article published in 2018

On the Use of the ISBAS Acronym in InSAR Applications. Comment on Vajedian, S.; Motagh, M.; Nilfouroushan, F. StaMPS Improvement for Deformation Analysis in Mountainous Regions: Implications for the Damavand Volcano and Mosha Fault in Alborz. Remote

Persistent Scatterer Interferometry Processing of COSMO-SkyMed StripMap HIMAGE Time Series to Depict Deformation of the Historic Centre of Rome, Italy

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Prospection and Monitoring of the Archaeological Heritage of Nasca, Peru, with ENVISAT ASAR

scholarly article by Deodato Tapete published in April 2013

Rapid Mapping and Deformation Analysis over Cultural Heritage and Rural Sites Based on Persistent Scatterer Interferometry

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Satellite geodesy tools for ground subsidence and associated shallow faulting hazard assessment in central Mexico

article by Enrique Cabral-Cano et al published 12 November 2015 in Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences

Semi-automated extraction of Deviation Indexes (DI) from satellite Persistent Scatterers time series: tests on sedimentary volcanism and tectonically-induced motions

Simulating SAR geometric distortions and predicting Persistent Scatterer densities for ERS-1/2 and ENVISAT C-band SAR and InSAR applications: Nationwide feasibility assessment to monitor the landmass of Great Britain with SAR imagery

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Site-Specific Analysis of Deformation Patterns on Archaeological Heritage by Satellite Radar Interferometry

scholarly article by Deodato Tapete published in January 2012

Small Baseline Subset (SBAS) pixel density vs. geology and land use in semi-arid regions in Syria

Structural health monitoring of engineered structures using a space-borne synthetic aperture radar multi-temporal approach: from cultural heritage sites to war zones

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Text Mining from Free Unstructured Text: An Experiment of Time Series Retrieval for Volcano Monitoring

scientific article published in 2022

The Protection of Cultural Heritage Sites from Geo-Hazards: The PROTHEGO Project

scholarly article by Kyriacos Themistocleous et al published 2016 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science

The application of the Intermittent SBAS (ISBAS) InSAR method to the South Wales Coalfield, UK

The relationship between intermittent coherence and precision of ISBAS InSAR ground motion velocities: ERS-1/2 case studies in the UK

scientific article published in 2017

Trends and perspectives of space-borne SAR remote sensing for archaeological landscape and cultural heritage applications

scholarly article by Deodato Tapete published in August 2017

Understanding geohazards in the UNESCO WHL site of the Derwent Valley Mills (UK) using geological and remote sensing data

Unsustainable use of groundwater resources in agricultural and urban areas: a persistent scatterer study of land subsidence at the basin scale

Urban remote sensing in areas of conflict: TerraSAR-X and Sentinel-1 change detection in the Middle East

‘Looting marks’ in space-borne SAR imagery: Measuring rates of archaeological looting in Apamea (Syria) with TerraSAR-X Staring Spotlight

scholarly article by Deodato Tapete published in June 2016