InSAR and Earth Observation techniques for infrastructure

Earth Observation (EO) encompasses an extremely broad suite of technologies that have come of age over the past 15 years and are expanding into a new era of cloud processing, very high resolution and near real-time service delivery. Technological improvements have brought spaceborne EO data products to the point where their spatial and temporal resolutions are of immediate relevance and benefit to the infrastructure community. Infrastructure asset stakeholders can now make use of the globally available cost-effective spaceborne solutions to address their need to map, measure and monitor multi-scale, rapidly changing and spatially complex assets of all kinds. This guide is aimed at improving accessibility to EO technology by providing an understanding of techniques and products, as applied to infrastructure management. It also includes some high-level information that explains the processes and decisions involved in planning and executing an infrastructure project.