MONITORING SOIL DEFORMATION USING PERSISTENT SCATTERS INTERFEROMETRY (PSI) TECHNIQUE: THE CASE STUDY OF THESSALY PREFECTURE (CENTRAL GREECE)

The aim of this study is dealing with the use of Persistent Scoters Interferometry (PSI) technique to detect soil deformation. The main idea is to find out point candidates in the agricultural fields in the northern part of Larissa having the properties that PSI technique uses. The soil properties have been classified into five orders. Inside each soil order one point candidate has been chosen to identify the behavior of soil deformation and the effect of soil type on its deformation rate, through the time series analysis of PSI point targets and creating a statistic correlation in order to identify exactly the effect of soil characteristics (soil properties) on its deformation.