Mapping and Characterizing Thermal Dilation of Civil Infrastructures with Multi-Temporal X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry

• Published in: Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 10; no. 6; p. 941
• Main Authors: Qin, Xiaoqiong, Zhang, Lu, Ding, Xiaoli, Liao, Mingsheng, Yang, Mengshi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 01.06.2018
• Subjects: civil infrastructures; least squares; multi-temporal DInSAR analysis; TerraSAR-X; thermal dilation characteristics

Temperature variation plays a significant role in the long-term structural behaviour of civil infrastructures, but very few quantitative studies have measured and analysed the infrastructures' global thermal dilation because of their large sizes and geometric complexities. The modern Differenti...