City Scale InSAR Monitoring of (Buildings Behind) Quay Walls

The city of Amsterdam in The Netherlands and many other historic European cities in countries that are rich in water and canals, currently face the task of assessing and potentially upgrading its quay walls along the historic canals. This task requires insight in the state of existing walls as well as of the buildings behind them as they are sensitive to construction impact. The assessment of such long trajectories potentially benefits from large scale datasets, such as InSAR based deformation rates. This abstract presents the results of the assessment of the vulnerability of buildings behind the canal walls as well as the first indication of the use of InSAR for assessment of the state of the canal walls itself.