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    ProceedingsoftheSecondWorldLandslideForum37October2011,Rome

    Andrea Tamburini(1), Sara Del Conte

    (1), Gianfranco Larini

    (2), Luigi

    Lopardo(2),ClaudioMalaguti

    (2),PaoloVescovi

    (3)

    Application of SqueeSARTM

    to the characterization

    of deep seated gravitational slope deformations:

    theBerceto

    case

    study

    (Parma,

    Italy).

    (1) TeleRilevamentoEuropa T.R.E.S.r.l.,RipadiPortaTicinese79,20149Milano,Italy,+39024343121

    (2) RegioneEmiliaRomagna,Servizio TecnicoBacinidegliAffluentidelPo (STBPO),viaGaribaldi75,43121Parma,Italy

    (3) Universit di Parma,Dipartimento Scienze della Terra, CampusUniversitario,VialeG.P.Usberti157/A,43124Parma,Italy

    AbstractSqueeSAR

    SAR

    interferometry

    is

    today

    one of the most advanced technologies for surfacedeformationmonitoring capable ofovercomingmost ofthe limitations of conventional differential radarinterferometry.Itexploitslongtemporalseriesofsatelliteradar data, acquired over the same area of interest atdifferent times, to identify natural radar targetswhereveryprecisedisplacementinformationcanberetrieved.

    Thanks to its capability to detectmillimetre leveldisplacements over long periods and large areas,SqueeSARanalysiscanbeconsideredcomplementarytoconventionalgeologicalandgeomorphologicalstudiesinlandslide detection and monitoring, supporting theperformance of landslide inventories at regional scale.Theavailabilityofsurfacedisplacementtimeseriesforalltheradarbenchmarksidentifiedmakesitalsopossibletochange the scale of the analysis from regional to local,allowing an in depth study of the evolution of singleinstability phenomena, supporting the design oftraditionalmonitoringnetworks, and evenverifying theefficiencyofremedialworks.

    The above approach was applied to study theBerceto deep seated gravitational slope deformation(DSGSD) (Parma, Italy)byprocessingsatelliteSARdatarelevanttothe19922000timespan.Bycombiningresults

    obtainedin

    both

    ascending

    and

    descending

    acquisition

    geometries,itwaspossibletoretrievebothverticalandEWcomponentsofsurfacedisplacements.

    A correlation with the results of the geophysicalinvestigations will be proposed, with a preliminaryinterpretationof the surfacedisplacement trends in theupperpartoftheslope.

    Keywords:InSAR,permanentscatterers,DGSD,Berceto.

    Introduction

    The

    Berceto

    village

    is

    located

    near

    the

    top

    of

    an

    unstable

    slope, characterized by periodical reactivations oftenfollowing intense meteorological events. Thesereactivations have been responsible for damages to

    buildings

    and

    infrastructures

    since

    a

    long

    time.

    The

    BercetounstableslopeisreportedintheItalianLandslideInventory(IFFI)Project,partly fundedbyISPRA(ItalianInstituteforEnvironmentalProtectionandResearch).

    Geophysical surveys and borehole investigationshave been recently carried out in order to obtainsubsurface data enabling a better understanding of theslopebehaviour.EightDCresistivitytomographyprofileswere recorded in the upper part of the slope andcontinuouscoreboreholesweredrilled.

    Attheendoflastyear,satelliteradardatahavebeenprocessed with SqueeSAR technique, based on analgorithmdevelopedbyPolitecnicodiMilano (POLIMI)and licensed exclusively to TRE, which enables toovercometheerrors introduced intosignalphasevaluesby atmospheric artefacts, which typically affect thetraditional interferometric approach. By exploiting theESA (European SpaceAgency) ERS12 archives, surfacedisplacement data relevant to 19922000 period wereobtained.

    An integrated approach based on the correlationamongtheabovedata,aimedatassessingtheriskrelatedto the landslide evolution, is still in progress; somepreliminaryresultswillbepresentedinthispaper.

    Geologicalsetting

    The Berceto area is located along a regional SWNEtectonicdiscontinuity,separatingtwodifferentsectorsoftheApenninechain:theLigurianEmiliantotheNWandthe TuscanEmilian to the SE. In the NW Apenninesegment thickExternalLigurianUnits arepreserved; intheSEsegment,moreexhumatedby tectonicuplift, theunderlying foredeep units are exposed (Bernini et al,1997).This tectonicuplift tookplaceduringPleistocene(Argnanietal,2003),accompaniedbyextensionalNWSEfaultson theTyrrhenian sideof theApennines (BerniniandPapani,2002).

    IntheBercetoarea,closetothedividebetweentheManubiola and Baganza rivers (fig. 1), the transversaldeformation band produced SWNE sinistral strikeslip

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    faults, NNESSW extensional faults, and superimposedNWSEnormalfaults(Bertoldietal,2004).ThestackofLigurian Units largely outcrops (Vescovi, 2002). TheoverturnedM.CaioFlysch,affectedbySWNEhighangletranspressive faults is tectonically overlain by ShalyChaoticComplex,consistingofblackandgreyshale,with

    pervasivedevelopment

    of

    scaly

    fabric

    (Pini,

    1999),

    often

    associated with ophiolitic bodies. The Shaly ChaoticComplexisoverthrustbytheScabiazzaSandstone,about100m thick, stratigraphicallyoverlying theMt.Rizzone

    ShaleandLimestone,outcroppinginexcavationslocatednear the village (Bertoldi et al, 2004). The ScabiazzaSandstoneconsistsofaturbiditesequenceshowingthinbedded shaly and marly lithofacies, alternated bymediumbedded sandstone lithofacies. This unit wasaffectedbySvergingrecumbentfoldsandgentlydipping

    detachmentfaults,

    crossed

    by

    high

    angle

    fault

    systems:

    theNEtrending sinistral transpressive faults, theNNESSWnormalfaultsandtheNWSElatenormalfaults.

    .

    Figure1Location

    map

    of

    the

    study

    area,

    with

    the

    average

    yearly

    surface

    displacement

    velocity

    measured

    along

    the

    satellite

    LOS.

    This structural framework and the lithologicalcharacteristicsoftheScabiazzaSandstoneareconsideredresponsibleforthedevelopmentofatrenchatthetopoftheBercetoslope.

    A50mboreholedrilledinthevillagein2001foundUpperPleistocene laminated lacustrinesedimentsabout25m thick (radiocarbondating 29,620290 14CyrB.P.)deposited in the trench (Unit5 inBertoldietal.,2004).The lacustrine sediments overlay a sedimentary brecciacontaining very weathered clasts of sandstone in silty

    matrix(Unit

    6in

    Bertoldi

    et,

    al.,

    2004)

    and

    passing

    up

    intopeat (radiocarbondating 11,15070 14CyrB.P.).Thelacustrinesequencewasaffectedby foldingandexhibits

    shear surfaces, testifying both compressive and, likely,extensive deformation occurred during the LatePleistocene gravityinduced deformation of the Bercetoslope; these deformative phases may have producedeither a rotational rockslide (Bertoldi et al, 2004) orslidingovera shear surfacegentlydipping towardsNW(Corsinietal.,2006).

    Surfacedisplacements

    In

    the

    early

    90s

    the

    first

    data

    on

    Earths

    surface

    provided

    bySyntheticApertureRadar(SAR)mountedonsatellites,have imparteda significantbreakthrough in the fieldofEarth Observation. Since then new unthinkable

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    perspectives have been gained on surface deformationphenomena analysis and monitoring. The advanced

    survey techniques of Earth's superficial displacementsfromsatelliteareknownasSARInterferometry(InSAR).

    Figure2Geologicalcrosssections1and2.Keytosymbols:1,Mt.CaioFlysch(thickbeddedmarlstones);2,ShalyChaoticComplex(withophiolitebreccias);3,Mt.RizzoneShaleandLimestone;4,ScabiazzaSandstone(4a,Thinbeddedshaleandsandstonelithofacies;4b,Mediumbeddedsandstonelithofacies;4c,Thinbeddedmarlsandsandstonelithofacies);5,LatePleistocene

    Lacustrinedeposits;6,stratigraphicboundary;7,overthrustandlowangledetachmentfaults;8,highanglefaults(shiftedbygravitywherehatched);9,gravitationalfaults(inferredwherehatched).

    SAR data processing techniques have beendeveloped and improvedbyRadarGroupofElectronicsDepartmentof thePolitecnicoofMilano (POLIMI) andafterbyTeleRilevamentoEuropa (TRE), firstspinoffofPOLIMI. TRE was granted exclusive license calledPermanent Scatterers (PS) technique, or PSInSAR(Ferrettietal.,2001).TheSqueeSARtechnique(Ferrettietal.,2011)isasecondgenerationalgorithm,anevolutionofPSInSARtechnology,thatsearchesfortargetsonthegroundthatreturnstableradarreflectionsovertimebacktothesatellite.

    Aswellknown,aSARimageisacollectionofsignalscoming from different types of radar targets, eithernatural (forests, rocks, etc) or manmade (buildings,bridges,poles,etc).Thesignalrecordedbythesensorcanvaryabruptlyeven inneighborpixels,dependingonthedifferent radarsignaturesof the illuminatedobjectsandtheacquisitiongeometry.Ingeneral, imagepixelswhereInSAR data can be extracted belong to two families oftargets: pointwise targets (Permanent Scatterers, PS),wherethereflectedenergycomes fromasingleorafewconnected pixels, and Distributed Targets (DS). ADistributed Scatterer (DS) corresponds to ahomogeneous area spread over a group of pixels in aradar

    image,

    like

    for

    example

    an

    agricultural

    field,

    a

    forest, a debris covered area. The characteristics of theradarreturnscomingfromallpixelscorrespondingtothe

    same DS, are statistically homogeneous, i.e. theinteractionbetween the radar targetongroundand theelectromagnetic wave is almost identical and can bemodeledbythesameprobabilitydensityfunction.

    While PS typically correspond to pointwisescatterers exhibiting a very high Radar Cross Section(RCS), the amplitude of the radar return of a pixelbelongingtoaDSisusuallymuchweaker,duetothelackof a dominant scatterer in the resolution cell, and ischaracterizedby lowerSNR. Indeed, iftheestimationofdisplacementrateandelevationvaluesisperformedonapixelbypixel basis across aDS, results arevery noisy.However, by averaging the signal of all the pixelsbelonging to the sameDS, it ispossible to significantlyimprove the estimation quality, obtaining SNR valuessimilartothePS,atthecostofalossofspatialresolutiondue to the averaging process.Thanks to typical remotesensing characteristic and in particular, the ability ofcoveringvastremoteareasofEarth'ssurface(fromafewto thousandsof squarekilometres)and to theabilityofestimating displacement with millimetre accuracy,SqueesAR is a very effective tool for highprecisionmonitoringofsurfacedisplacements,andcanbeappliedatdifferentscales,fromregionaltosinglebuilding.

    TheSqueeSARTM

    analysis

    provides

    for

    each

    measurement point the average yearly displacementvelocity value and a displacement time history.

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    Displacements are measured along the line of sight(LOS)oftheradarbeam.ThesatellitesflyovertheEarthalong polar orbits, and therefore pass over the area ofinterest in two possible geometries: ascending, flyingfrom south to north, and descending, from north tosouth. The availability of displacement data in both

    ascendingand

    descending

    geometries

    over

    the

    same

    area

    enhancesthecoverageofthestudyareaandenablestheestimation ofvertical andEWhorizontaldisplacementfields.

    Figure 3verticalaverageyearlydisplacement rateprovidedbySqueeSARTManalysis

    Twodata

    sets

    of

    77

    descending

    and

    27

    ascending

    SAR scenesacquiredbyERS1andERS2 satelliteswereprocessed, covering the periodJuly 1992 January 2001.Morethan6000measurementpointsinbothacquisitiongeometrieswereidentifiedwithinthestudyarea.

    Figure 4 EW horizontal average yearly displacement rateprovidedbySqueeSARTManalysis

    Themainresultsoftheanalysisaresummarized inthefollowingpoints:

    the average yearly displacement rate (LOSdisplacements, descending geometry) is 1015mm/yr inthe urbanized area, 2030mm/yr near the foot of theslope,withmaximumvaluesupto50mm/yrmeasuredinthemidpartoftheslope

    the yearly displacement rate distribution

    evidencesthe

    upper

    limit

    of

    the

    sliding

    area,

    correspondingtotheeasternlimitoftheurbanizedarea within the urbanized area and the upper right

    part of theBerceto slope, seasonaldisplacement cycles,sometimes superimposed on the average displacementtrend,seemtobepresent;theamplitudeoftheseasonalcyclesreachesmaximumvaluesofabout10mm;

    in the lower left part of the Berceto slope, thedisplacement timehistory seems to showan increaseofdisplacementrateduringspring;

    the estimation ofvertical from EW horizontalcomponents obtained by geometrically combining data

    acquiredin

    ascending

    and

    descending

    geometries

    indicates that the vertical component prevails in theupper part of the slope, while the EW horizontalcomponent inhigher than theverticalone in the lowerpartoftheslope.

    SubsurfacestructureoftheupperBercetoslope

    EightDC resistivity tomographyprofiles,with 126smartelectrodes spaced 11.5m for a total length of 1437.5meach, crossing the upper part of the Berceto slopeincluding the village were recorded. The investigationdepthwasabout250m.Accordingtothelithologyofthegeological

    units

    recognized

    in

    the

    study

    area,

    three

    geoelectric units were recognized: resistive (coherentlithologies), conductive (shaly lithologies) andintermediate (heterogeneous lithologies and/or highwatercontent).

    Two resistivity profiles, together with theirgeological interpretation (Figure 5 and 2 respectively),havebeenselectedasrepresentativeofthegeologicalandstructuralframeworkoftheBercetoslope.Fromageneralpoint of view, the following sequence was recognized,from top to bottom: an upper intermediate resistivityunit (IRU), a central conductive unit (CU) and a lower

    resistiveunit

    (RU).

    A

    more

    detailed

    description

    of

    the

    selectedcrosssectionfollows.The resistivityprofile 1exhibits the IRU (Scabiazza

    Sandstone) characterized by thinbedded shales andsandstones, including more resistive mediumbeddedsandstonesupto100mthickintheNWpart.TheupperIRU isdislocated bydiscontinuities interpreted both astectonicfaultsand/orgravitationalslidingsurfaces.Suchdiscontinuities are SEdipping near the Baganzavalley,NWdippingontheBercetoslope.ThecentralCU(ShalyChaotic Complex) even if more continuous than theupper one,with an average thickness of about 100m,

    appearsstretched

    in

    at

    least

    three

    points,

    one

    of

    which

    corresponding to thedeepeningof the lowerRU in theNW part of the cross section. This lower RU was

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    interpreted as the Mt. Caio Flysch, which exhibits anantiformalgeometry faulted in theNWpart,where theunitisabout150mdeeper.

    The resistivity profile 2 crosses the Bercetovillageand the trenchwith the lacustrine sedimentspreviouslydescribed, evidenced by high conductivity values. The

    upperIRU

    shows

    higher

    conductivity

    values

    compared

    to

    crosssection1,probablyrelatedtoahigherwatercontentinmore fracturedandpermeable levels.ThecentralCU(Shaly Chaotic Complex) has an average thickness ofabout 100m,and isclearlystretched in theNWpartofthe section.Compared to cross section 1, the lowerRU(Mt.CaioFlysch) is lessevidentbutvisibleat the same

    depth.

    Figure5DCresistivitytomographyprofiles1(byGEOINVESTs.r.l. Piacenza,up)and2(bySGGs.r.l.Siena,down).

    Geoelectrical data were integrated with borehole

    data

    and

    structural

    data

    collected

    on

    the

    outcrops

    close

    to the village and along Baganza valley, in order toprovide a geological interpretation of the subsurfacestructureoftheBercetoslope.

    The geological cross section 1 (corresponding toresistivityprofile1)showsintherightpartSWNEhighangle faults affecting the Mt. Caio Flysch; under theBercetovillagethisunitexhibitsanantiformalstructure,visible inoutcropalongtheBaganzariver.TheMt.CaioFlysch is overthrusted by the Shaly Chaotic Complex,which is overthrustedby the Scabiazza Sandstone.ThislastwasdeformedbyapreApennine Sverging folding,detached byNdipping low angle surfaces and by highangle

    faults

    related

    to

    Apennine

    tectonics.

    The

    high

    angle faultsappear shiftedbyNWdipping gravitationalfaults,thatcouldexplainthepresenceofplasticclayrichbreccia with arenaceous blocks levels identified inboreholesBH2atadepthof40and90mrespectively(fig.2).Thepresenceofgravitationalfaultscouldexplainthestretching observedwithin the Shaly Chaotic Complexandthehighersurfacedisplacementratepointedoutbysatelliteinterferometry.TheBercetolacustrinesequence,recognized in both boreholesBH3 andBH4 couldhaveprobablybeendislocatedbygravitationalfaults.About10m of lacustrine deposits, corresponding to the Unit 6

    (Bertoldiet

    al.,

    2004),

    were

    encountered

    in

    Borehole

    BH3;

    thesameunit,overlainby4mthicklaminatedlacustrinesediments (Unit 5, Bertoldi et al., 2004), deformed by

    extensionalshearing,were found inboreholeBH4.Such

    laminated

    deposits

    appear

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    dipping,

    meaning

    the

    occurenceofrotationalmovements.From a general point ofview the geological cross

    section 2 (corresponding to resistivity profile 2) showsthesamegeologicalandstructural frameworkofsection1. About 25 m of laminated lacustrine deposits wereencountered in borehole BH1, within the trenchdelimited by gravitational faults corresponding to theBercetohollow.A2mthickplasticintervalwasfoundata depth of 58m, and interpreted as the evidence of agravitationalfault.

    Discussionandconclusions

    HypothesesabouttheevolutionoftheBercetoslopewereadvanced after integrating surface and subsurface dataandobservationswithliteraturedata.

    The structural framework of the Berceto areaindicates that the upper Berceto slopewas affected bygravitational faults (Persaud and Pfiffner, 2004;UstaszewskiandPfiffner,2008).Onepossiblemechanismfor these gravitational slope processes are the deepseated gravitational slope deformations (DGSD) byDramis and SorrisoValvo (1994), recognised in severalparts of theNorthernApennines (DAmatoAvanzi and

    Puccinelli,1996;

    Coltorti

    et

    al,

    2009).

    The uppermost portion of the Berceto slope ischaracterized by the tectonic uplift related totranspressive tectonics; this structuremaybea relevant

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    factor for the development of the DGSD (Dramis andSorrisoValvo(1994).

    Several gravitational faults developed close to thenorthwestern side of the antiformal stacking of theburiedMt.CaioFlysch.WithintheScabiazzaSandstonegravitational faults using preexisting discontinuities

    suchas

    tectonic

    faults

    and

    foliation

    planes

    and

    the

    kinematics seems a rotational sliding (Cruden andVarnes, 1996). Through the Shaly Chaotic Complex,characterized by lithologies affected by pronouncedfoliation, the gravitational deformations may developwith more ductile mechanical behaviour, resulting infailure surfaces flattening towards thevalley floor or adeepseated creep with very slow movement rates(Hutchinson,1988).

    TheevolutionoftheDGSDwasprobalyresponsiblefortheformationofadepressionlargerthanthepresentBercetohollow,intheupperpartoftheslope,wherethe

    lacustrinesequence

    was

    deposited.

    According

    to

    radiocarbondata,thislacustrinesequencewasdislocatedduringtheHolocene.Thedifferenceinelevationbetweenthe bottom of the lacustrine basin encountered inboreholes BH1 and BH4 is about 50 m, which couldcorrespond toanhorizontaldisplacementofmore than100m, according to thepresentdaymorphology of theslope. Under this hypothesis the average yearlydisplacement rate is consistent with the presentdaysurface displacement ratemeasured from 1992 to 2000withsatelliteinterferometry.

    Surfacedisplacementdata are also consistentwith

    thehypothesis

    of

    gravitational

    faults

    reaching

    the

    Shaly

    Chaotic Complex. The distribution of vertical vshorizontal component ratio indicates the presence ofrotational sliding surfaces; moreover the highestdisplacementratesoccurrinthecentralpartoftheslope,corresponding to the top of the deep antiformalstructure,where thedeformation of the slope seems toaffectathickersequence.

    Finally, the interferometric data analysis providedsomeevidencesofcorrelationbetween landslideactivityandprecipitation.Seasonaldisplacementcyclesobservedinthetheurbanizedareaandtheupperrightpartofthe

    Berceto

    slope

    can

    be

    explained

    as

    the

    result

    of

    swelling

    shrinkage deformation cycles, typical of the clayeydeposits, i.e. the lacustrine sequence. Moreoverdisplacementrateincreaseduringspringinthelowerleftpartof theBerceto slopecouldbean evidenceof creepphenomena superimposed on the deep deformationtrend,relatedtowatercirculation.

    This first attempt of integration between surfacedisplacements provided by SqueeSARTM analysis andsubsurface data provided by geophysical and boreholeinvestigations suggested that the evolutional modelproposed for the Berceto DGSD is nevertheless morecomplex than expected. Further investigations areneeded in order to gathermore surface and subsurfacedata.Moreoveranewgroundbasedmonitoringsystemisbeinginstalled,inordertointegratetheresultsobtained

    by satellite radar interferometry and improve theknowledgeoftheslopedynamics.

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